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

Charles Darwin was baffled by many 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, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at University of Colorado, for an exploration into the evolutionary origin of flowering plants, and how recent advances in the fossil record shed new light on what they looked like, where they lived, and how they reproduced. Part of the Asa Gray Bicentennial Series.

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