Weeds that reinvented weediness
Thursday, September 3, 2009 - 09:22
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Flowering plants are all around us and are phenomenally successful -- but how did they get to be so successful and where did they come from? This question bothered Darwin and others and a paper published in the September issue of the Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society indicates that their ability to adapt anatomically may be the answer.