Darwin called it the “abominable mystery”: the reason for a sudden explosion of diverse flowering plants in the fossil record. Biologists have pondered the issue for years but were hampered by the absence of full studies of some plants and a lack of sophisticated tools for analyzing large genetic data sets. But now, thanks to a method called “functional phylogenomics,” scientists have resolved some of the enigmatic relationships of plant families, potentially opening the way for advances in agriculture.
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/19/the-tree-of-life-gets-a-makeover/?src=me&ref=science
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