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Article #1233Re: Flowering plants
From: Una Smith
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 1990 20:15
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 1990 20:15
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eesnyder@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Eric E. Snyder) writes:
>>A friend of mine came up with a statement that struck me a patently
>>absurd....
>>"there is no evidence of angiosperms (flowering plants) in the
>>fossil record"
Not true.
frist@ccu.umanitoba.ca writes:
>Your friend is probably a Special Creationist. While Gymnosperms dominated
>much of the first parts of the Mesozoic era (Triassic and Jurassic),
>starting in the Cretaceous period (roughly 130Myr ago), the angiosperm
>radiation can be observed. During this period, mass extinctions of
There is evidence of a similar radiation (enormous diversification and
increase in numbers) of _insects_, which makes for a very nice story
about coevolution.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!udel!princeton!pucc!UNASMITH From: UNASMITH@pucc.Princeton.EDU (Una Smith) Newsgroups: sci.bio Subject: Re: Flowering plants Message-ID: <11928@pucc.Princeton.EDU> Date: 21 Oct 90 20:15:36 GMT References: <28272@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <1990Oct18.142341.6998@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Reply-To: UNASMITH@pucc.Princeton.EDU Organization: Princeton University, NJ Lines: 26 Disclaimer: Author bears full responsibility for contents of this article