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

[John Grehan]

This is the kind of myopic response that seems to pop up every time
Croizat gets another one right. It appears that his opponents were not
only blind, but did not peck enough to get any corn at all.

Cheers,

John Grehan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu [mailto:taxacom-
> bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Thomas G. Lammers
> Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 1:27 PM
> To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Angiosperm origins: Darwin's "abominable"
mystery
> 
> 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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