Scientist finds unexpected key to flowering plants' diversity
Wednesday, July 30, 2008 - 09:14
in Paleontology & Archaeology
What began with an off-the-cuff curiosity eventually led Joe Williams to hang from the limbs of a tree 80 feet above the soil of northeastern Australia. The things Williams, a University of Tennessee, Knoxville, researcher found there may help explain the amazing diversity in the world's flowering plants, a question that has puzzled scientists from the time of Charles Darwin to today...
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