Growing evidence of morphological diversity in angiosperm flowers, seeds and pollen from
the mid Cretaceous and the presence of derived lineages from increasingly older geological …

An understanding of the evolution of modern terrestrial ecosystems requires an
understanding of the dynamics associated with angiosperm evolution, including the timing of …

• Premise of the study: It has been 8 years since the last comprehensive analysis of
divergence times across the angiosperms. Given recent methodological improvements in …

The extraordinary diversity of angiosperms is the ultimate outcome of the interplay of
speciation and extinction, which determine the net diversification of different lineages. We …

Angiosperms are the most successful plants and support human livelihood and ecosystems.
Angiosperm phylogeny is the foundation of studies of gene function and phenotypic …

The fossil record has played an important role in the history of evolutionary thought, has
aided the determination of key relationships through mosaics, and has allowed an …

Through the lens of the fossil record, angiosperm diversification precipitated a Cretaceous
Terrestrial Revolution (KTR) in which pollinators, herbivores and predators underwent …

Contributions from paleobotany, phylogenetics, genomics, developmental biology, and
developmental genetics have yielded tremendous insight into Darwin's “abominable …

Dating analyses based on molecular data imply that crown angiosperms existed in the
Triassic, long before their undisputed appearance in the fossil record in the Early …

Recent attempts to address the long-debated 'origin'of the angiosperms depend on a
phylogenetic framework derived from a matrix of taxa versus characters; most assume that …