• 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 …

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

The age of the angiosperms has long been of interest to botanists and evolutionary
biologists. Many early efforts to date the age of the angiosperms and evolutionary …

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 …

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 …

The evolutionary timescale of angiosperms has long been a key question in biology.
Molecular estimates of this timescale have shown considerable variation, being influenced …

The origin of flowering plants (angiosperms) was one of the most transformative events in
the history of our planet. Despite considerable interest from multiple research fields …

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 …

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 …

The extraordinary contemporary species richness and ecological predominance of flowering
plants (angiosperms) are even more remarkable when considering the relatively recent …