Research yields understanding of Darwin's 'abominable mystery'
Thursday, December 6, 2012 - 11:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
(Phys.org)—Research by Indiana University paleobotanist David L. Dilcher and colleagues in Europe sheds new light on what Charles Darwin famously called "an abominable mystery": the apparently sudden appearance and rapid spread of flowering plants in the fossil record.