Darwin's Abominable Mystery and the Search for the First Flowering P November 4, 2010

Charles Darwin was baffled by many big questions in evolutionary biology, and none more so than the mystery of how the planet's first flowering plants came to be. Join William (Ned) Friedman, newly appointed Director of the Arnold Arboretum and Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard, for an exploration into the evolutionary origin of flowering plants, and how recent advances in the fossil record have shed new light on what they may have looked like, where they "lived," and how they reproduced.