【XWBOO Industry News】 Birth and extinction, survival and evolution, and the development of living things have left a long history on the earth. Of course, this history, even today, is "in the process," and humans are only minor players in it. However, the unique human thirst for knowledge, but continue to "push" us to find out this history. The existence of living things is closely related to the environment, so the formation of ecological chain is actually the result of environmental impact, which is obviously reflected in the development and evolution history of many animals. Recently, researchers from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences have found that significant global climate events in the Cenozoic have had a huge impact on the ecosystem. In this environment, mammals have undergone a transformation from ancient taxa to modern taxa. Among them, the impact brought by the water cycle is quite remarkable.
Water cycle is one of the ways of material evolution on the earth, which is simply to say that under the action of solar radiation and the earth's gravity, water vapor transport, condensation and fall, infiltration and runoff of water, etc. The process by which the various forms of water are interchanged and circulated throughout the earth. The formation of basins in different periods and the development of rivers, lakes and seas are all related to the water cycle system at that time. In fact, the water cycle also directly reflects the climate characteristics of different periods. In fact, the water cycle also directly reflects the climate characteristics of different periods. The intensification of the water cycle under the greenhouse effect is an example. At the same time, water as a source of life is closely related to the formation of biological communities, such as mammals in the search for habitat, will be given priority to areas of dense freshwater. In fact, this is also reflected in the formation of ancient human civilization. Generally speaking, the water environment and the climatic conditions determine the geographical distribution of animal groups. It is found that the climate change between the ice chamber and the greenhouse in the Cenozoic directly affects the geographical distribution of the mammals in the Cenozoic. Among them, the Paleocene / Eocene extreme heat events led to the northward migration of mammals, which directly affected the appearance and development of mammals such as primates, odd-foot and artiodactyla in the Asian region, followed by several small-scale warming. Spurred an increase in species diversity. When the greenhouse environment suddenly changed to the ice chamber environment, the replacement of animals became more obvious, and the trajectory of primate evolution changed accordingly. As for the cooling events since the Late Miocene, in addition to causing major changes in mammal groups, we have a direct impact on the formation and development of human civilization.
But this kind of development also has certain interactivity. The water cycle, or the water climate, affects mammals and is also directly affected by mammals. This is particularly evident in the development of human civilization. In a negative sense, the cycle of the past ice chamber and greenhouse was usually long, although there was a regular pattern, but the development of human civilization accelerated the arrival of the greenhouse effect. This is even faster than nature's ability to regulate itself; on the positive side, with the advent of modern technologies such as artificial rainfall, we do not have to leave our homes for long migrations because of the water cycle. Even the development of civilization has become freer as a result. Science and technology and nature are intermingling with each other. we should respect the influence of nature on the evolution of living things, and we should not neglect the development of our own civilization. The evolution of the geographical distribution of the Cenozoic mammals by the water cycle not only reflects the transformation from ancient taxa to modern taxa, but also warns us of the inseparable relationship between man and nature. Original title: Influence of water cycle on ecological development, integration and influence of science, technology and nature
