New DNA tree of plant life resolves Darwin's 'abominable mystery'

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Haaretz | World News

Global team led by the Kew Royal Botanic Gardens analyzed over 9,500 flowering plants to figure out how so many evolved, so fast

Apr 24, 2024

Apr 24, 2024

Flowers are attractive, which is one of life's few true axioms. That is their whole point. They attract bees and other pollinators such as bats, which help the plant bearing the flowers to disseminate. Today flowering plants account for 90 percent of all terrestrial plant life and exist on all continents, but while they delight everyone from bees to bats to courting couples, they sorely troubled Charles Darwin, co-parent of evolution theory.

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