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  2. 2 days ago · Finding that female giraffes have proportionally both longer necks and longer body trunks led us to propose that females, and not males, drove the evolution of the giraffe’s long neck, and not for sex but for food and reproduction. Our theory is in agreement with Darwin and Lamarck that food was the major driver for the evolution of the ...

  3. 5 days ago · In their classic theories of evolution, both Jean Baptiste Lamarck and Charles Darwin suggested that giraffes' long necks evolved to help them reach leaves high up in a tree, avoiding competition ...

  4. 2 days ago · In the 19th century, biologists Charles Darwin and Jean Baptiste Lamarck both speculated that giraffes’ long necks helped them reach acacia leaves high up in the trees, though they likely weren ...

  5. 1 day ago · New Study About the Evolution of the Giraffe's Long Neck. Food, then sex, drove the evolution of the giraffe's long neck, according to a new study by Penn State and Wild Nature Institute published in the journal Mammalian Biology. Although male and female giraffes have the same body proportions at birth, they are significantly different as they ...

  6. 3 days ago · Finding that female giraffes have proportionally both longer necks and longer body trunks led us to propose that females, and not males, drove the evolution of the giraffe’s long neck, and not for sex but for food and reproduction. Our theory is in agreement with Darwin and Lamarck that food was the major driver for the evolution of the ...

  7. 3 days ago · They only appear as giraffes are reaching adulthood. Finding that female giraffes have proportionally both longer necks and longer body trunks led us to propose that females, and not males, drove the evolution of the giraffe's long neck, and not for sex but for food and reproduction. Our theory is in agreement with Darwin and Lamarck that food ...

  8. 5 days ago · Evolution, theory in biology postulating that the various types of living things on Earth have their origin in other preexisting types and that the distinguishable differences are due to modifications in successive generations.

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