New Study Solves Flower Mystery that Baffled Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin and the Vexing Mysteries of Flowering Plants The story of the sudden rise and spread of flowering plants is still filled with mystery. Professor Richard Buggs, an evolutionary biologist at Queen Mary, University of London, told BBC News “In the fossil record they appear very suddenly in the Cretaceous, dated at about 100 million years ago, and there's nothing that looks like an angiosperm [plant that produces flowers and bears seeds in fruit] before them and then they suddenly appear and in considerable diversity.” Professor Buggs provided his explanation why Charles Dar...
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