High-throughput sequencing is fundamentally altering traditional phylogenetic classifications. While the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG) III system based on chloroplast sequences has opened up a new ...

Species composition within a geographic area is the result of historical processes including speciation, extinction, migration 6 and ongoing ecological interactions. The extent to which each process ...

Scientists still strain to make sense of angiosperms' widespread success, which Darwin called an “abominable mystery.” In the last years of his life, Charles Darwin was tormented by an apparent ...

Diversity and Distributions, Vol. 29, No. 2 (February 2023), pp. 232-243 (12 pages) Aim: Understanding how species' traits and environmental contexts relate to extinction risk is a critical priority ...

Fossils of angiosperms first appear in the fossil record about 140 million years ago. Based on the material in which these fossils are deposited, early angiosperms must have been weedy, fast-growing ...

For many years, Charles Darwin was haunted by flowers. In 1859, the naturalist published his most famous work, On the Origin of Species, the book that is generally regarded as the foundation of ...

Paleontologists may be on the verge of solving one of the great mysteries in the history of life on our planet – the origin of angiosperms, the flowering plants. The importance of angiosperms cannot ...