How flowers conquered the world2. Comment #395603 by Ubiquitous Che on July 12, 2009 at 1:52 pm
Interesting how I haven't heard flowers being put forward as a refutation of evolution by wackaloons before.3. Comment #395612 by Jos Gibbons on July 12, 2009 at 2:25 pm
Comment #395603 by Ubiquitous Che4. Comment #395620 by Aza on July 12, 2009 at 2:59 pm
The great explosion in flowering plants during the Cretaceous Period is one of the great enigmas of evolution.
5. Comment #395642 by NewEnglandBob on July 12, 2009 at 5:28 pm
6. Comment #395648 by j.mills on July 12, 2009 at 5:54 pm
No bogeymen, no gods, no woo......and no evidence at this point. Positive feedback, okay, plausible, I'll bite; but let's not make the media's mistake of regarding every new hypothesis as a settled fact.
7. Comment #395650 by SnapperLaFleur on July 12, 2009 at 5:56 pm
8. Comment #395653 by Rational_G on July 12, 2009 at 6:05 pm
9. Comment #395658 by King of NH on July 12, 2009 at 6:27 pm
10. Comment #395661 by j.mills on July 12, 2009 at 6:35 pm
something the wakaloons would be all over like Jesus on Mary Magdalene.That statement is likely to outrage a substantial number of adherents of the wakaloon creed. Unless you can demonstrate its genuine scientific, artistic, literary, political or academic merit, I will require of you €25,000.
11. Comment #395663 by zepcow on July 12, 2009 at 6:49 pm
All of that blatant sex on display was obviously too much for the big old conservative dinosaurs to handle.12. Comment #395665 by BeyondBelief on July 12, 2009 at 7:00 pm
13. Comment #395672 by Enlightenme.. on July 12, 2009 at 7:34 pm
14. Comment #395674 by Enlightenme.. on July 12, 2009 at 7:47 pm
15. Comment #395689 by Roy_H on July 12, 2009 at 10:25 pm
16. Comment #395738 by Roland_F on July 13, 2009 at 2:13 am
When I remember right the reproduction of conifers by producing huge amounts of sperm which need to be carried by the wind to another tree of the same species and hit there the female parts (Tiliqua, Fir taps ??) is quite tedious. Flowering plant with help of insects are much more advantaged to get fertilized by exact targeted insects. So the question seems not so much why flowering plants rule today, but how they got to be dominant. Well when you have a distinctive evolutionary advantage and 40 million years of time, I would be rather surprised if they would not gain the upper hand.17. Comment #395747 by JesperB on July 13, 2009 at 2:45 am
18. Comment #395779 by Ivan The Not So Bad on July 13, 2009 at 5:00 am
19. Comment #395782 by irate_atheist on July 13, 2009 at 5:10 am
20. Comment #395783 by Roger Stanyard on July 13, 2009 at 5:14 am
Religiot
IDiot
Wackaloon
Woo
Creotard
21. Comment #395784 by irate_atheist on July 13, 2009 at 5:19 am
22. Comment #395791 by Tezcatlipoca on July 13, 2009 at 5:43 am
23. Comment #396093 by bluebird on July 13, 2009 at 7:55 pm
24. Comment #396609 by notsobad on July 15, 2009 at 4:25 am
25. Comment #396613 by irate_atheist on July 15, 2009 at 4:42 am
1. Comment #395591 by Celandine on July 12, 2009 at 1:25 pm
Absolutely fascinating.Other Comments by Celandine