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Primary Succession Recapitulates Phylogeny
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Primary Succession Recapitulates Phylogeny is a modern functional hypothesis interlinking Evolutionary Biology with the Primary Succession put forth by the Indian Evolutionary Biologist, Dr. Felix Bast. The parallelism between the process of primary succession and the evolution of life on this planet is remarkable and conspicuous, yet never been spotted prior to this hypothesis. As per this hypothesis, the order at which each seral communities appear, right from the pioneer species until the climax communities, is by the order of appearance of the respective evolutionary lineages in the tree of life. Evolutionary history of life on this planet is, in fact, a massive and ongoing process of primary succession, which is the rationale for this striking harmony. Central premise of this postulation is the idea that the plants that have been evolved to adapt to an almost naked landscape would be the first to colonize new environments. In light of this parallelism, fields of ecological succession and phylogenetic systematics can mutually complement for resolving perplexed conundrums, and can potentially enlighten the future of life on the planet earth. Origins The hypothesis was first formalized by Dr. Felix Bast-an Inspired Teacher awardee and an Evolutionary Biologist from Central University of Punjab, Bathinda, and published in Journal of Phylogenetics and Evolutionary Biology in 2016, and instantaneously became a classic. See Also
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