[Taxacom] Angiosperm origins: Darwin's "abominable" mystery

[Thomas G. Lammers]

At 11:12 AM 3/19/2010, John Grehan wrote:
>Well there is nothing much new in this as Croizat presented
>biogeographic and morphogenetic evidence for the origin of angiosperms
>in the Carboniferous-Permian period. Of course he got ignored by the
>dominant botanical authorities. But it's nice to see the 'modern'
>technology back him up on that (without acknowledgement I expect).

"Even a blind chicken gets a little corn if he pecks often enough."
;-)


Tom Lammers

Associate Professor
Curator of the Neil A. Harriman Herbarium
Department of Biology and Microbiology

e-mail:       lammers at uwosh.edu
phone:      920-424-1002

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