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Article: Flowering plants evolved into five groups 5 million years ago
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- The Hindustan Times
- Article date:
- November 28, 2007
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Washington, Nov. 28 -- A new study by scientists has shed light on early plant evolution by finding that flowering plants had evolved into five groups in a short period of less than 5 million years.
The study, carried out by Doug and Pam Soltis, a UF (University of Florida) professor of Botany, shows that a stunning diversification of flowering plants took place in the period of less than 5 million years, and resulted in all five major lineages of flowering plants that exist today.
"Flowering plants today comprise around 400,000 species," said Soltis. "So to think that the burst that give rise to almost all of these ...