Debate Blooms over Anatomy of the World's First Flower
Some researchers say statistical prediction of the ancestral blossom yielded an unlikely structure
An ambitious effort to reconstruct the world’s first flower has seeded a debate over what forms a blossom can and cannot take.
The project, called eFLOWER, combined an unparalleled database of plant traits, reams of molecular data on evolutionary relationships, and complex statistical models to determine what the ancestor of all modern flowering plants might have looked like. When its results were published last August, they drew intense interest from academics and the media./.../
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