The article discusses botanical breakthroughs which contribute to the understanding of the evolution of flowering plants and their sexual history. The frustration of naturalist Charles Darwin stemmed, in large part, from the remarkably rapid origin and diversification of flowering plants within a brief period of earth's history and his own strong views that evolutionary change was typically a slow and gradual process. Fortunately, in the past decade, paleontologists, by digging, hammering, and sifting through layers of Early Cretaceous fossils, have radically expanded knowledge of how the earliest flowering plants diversified.
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