Solving Darwin’s ‘abominable mystery’: How flowering plants conquered the world

Researchers have found that flowering plants have small cells relative to other major plant groups, made possible by a greatly reduced genome size, and this may explain how they became dominant so rapidly in ecosystems across the world.

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