🧪 The world's fastest evolving moss isn't going to out adapt climate change. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/fastest-evolving-moss-adapt-climate-change

Reporting this, I fell in love with this tough lil' bryophyte. Poor Takakia, 390 million years old and may not make it the next century.

The fastest-evolving moss in the world may not adapt to climate change

The genus Takakia has the largest number of fast-evolving genes of any moss, a study finds. But it’s losing ground in the warming Himalayas.

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