Sentences with phrase «abominable mystery»
When Charles Darwin looked at the fossil record, he was amazed at how many different kinds of angiosperms evolved so quickly, calling this burst «an abominable mystery.»
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Darwin called the origin of flowering plants an «abominable mystery.»
The newly sequenced genome of the Amborella plant addresses Darwin's «abominable mystery» — the question of why flowers suddenly proliferated on Earth millions of years ago.
The eventual emergence of flowering upstarts around 140 million years ago is still what Charles Darwin called an «abominable mystery.»
The puzzle, known as «Darwin's abominable mystery,» was to figure out how a quarter - million - plus species of flowering plants came, in a very short span of evolutionary time, to dominate the Earth.
Shedding light on Darwin's «abominable mystery».»