Tag: flowering plants
Bechly: “Life’s Second ‘Big Bang'”
He touches on other biological explosions, including the Avalon explosion, the Triassic explosion, and the origin of flowering plants.
Abstract: Lönnig on Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery”
All orders and families of the angiosperms appear abruptly in the fossil record (the same for most lower systematic categories).
Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery”: Mesozoic Cupules Come to the Rescue?
Darwin’s “abominable mystery” is not only very much alive and kicking, but it also suggests intelligent design.
Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery”: Jurassic Flowering Plants After All?
This year a new article by Silvestro et al. (2021), “Fossil data support a pre-Cretaceous origin of flowering plants,” was published.
Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery”: Still Alive and Kicking
Darwinists had hoped that 150 years of paleontological research since Darwin would surely make this nagging problem go away.