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An early bloom of evolution – Research News

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Florida Museum researchers find that a rapid burst of flowering plants 90 million years ago set the stage for bursts of diversification in other plant and animal species. A new Florida Museum of Natural History study based on DNA analysis from living flowering plants shows that the ancestors
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Botanists create “supertree” of evolution for flowering plants – Research News

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A group of scientists has created the first comprehensive evolutionary reconstruction of the many families of flowering plants, an achievement that could aid in the search for plant-based cures for diseases and improve agricultural crops. The group, which includes two Florida Museum of Natura
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Bulb size matters: Uncovering the evolution of the plant kingdom’s doomsday preppers

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Botanist Cody Coyotee Howard compares bulbs to living bunkers. With an underground stockpile of resources, bulbs can hunker down during disasters and spring up faster than other plants when conditions turn balmy. The bigger the bulb, the more nutrients a plant has in times of need. But bulb size
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54-million-year-old skull reveals early evolution of primate brains – Research News

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Researchers at the Florida Museum of Natural History and the University of Winnipeg have developed the first detailed images of a primitive primate brain, unexpectedly revealing that cousins of our earliest ancestors relied on smell more than sight. The analysis of a well-preserved skull from
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Head lice evolution mirrors human migration and colonization in the Americas – Research

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A new analysis of lice genetic diversity suggests that lice came to the Americas twice – once during the first wave of human migration across the Bering Strait, and again during European colonization. Marina Ascunce, who conducted the research at the Florida Museum of Natural History, and colleagues
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New book charts the history and evolution of world’s butterflies – Research News

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In a new book, a father and daughter scientist duo explore the 100-million-year history of butterflies. From their inauspicious origin as odd, day-flying moths to their modern-day diversity and distribution, Andrei and Alexandra Sourakov provide salient butterfly facts in a short, easy-to-read forma
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