Darwin's "Abominable Mystery" and the Search for the First Flowering Plants (2010)

Lecture by William (Ned) Friedman

William (Ned) Friedman, newly appointed Director of the Arnold Arboretum and Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard, explorated 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.