Evolutionary developmental genetics (evodevotics) is a novel scientific endeavor which
assumes that changes in developmental control genes are a major aspect of evolutionary …

Molecular data on relationships within angiosperms confirm the view that their increasing
morphological diversity through the Cretaceous reflected their evolutionary radiation …

Although they are relative latecomers on the evolutionary scene, having emerged only 135?
170 million years ago, angiosperms—or flowering plants—are the most diverse and species …

In this article we explore the paradox of why morphological data are currently utilized less for
phylogeny reconstruction than are DNA sequence data, whereas most of what we know …

Plants have utterly transformed the planet, but testing hypotheses of causality requires a
reliable time‐scale for plant evolution. While clock methods have been extensively …

We live in the age of comparative genomics, and it may seem that there is not much point in
reconstructing phylogenies using morphological data anymore. As more and more genes …

Efforts to resolve Darwin's “abominable mystery”—the origin of angiosperms—have led to
the conclusion that Gnetales and various fossil groups are sister to angiosperms, forming the …

Increasingly robust understanding of angiosperm phylogeny allows more secure
reconstruction of the flower in the most recent common ancestor of extant angiosperms and …

Phylogenetic relationships among the five groups of extant seed plants are presently quite
unclear. For example, morphological studies consistently identify the Gnetales as the extant …

We have amassed structural data for 108 characters and 52 taxa of magnoliids and basal
monocots and eudicots, including observations by PK Endress and A. Igersheim on flowers …