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How Flowers Took Over The World
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14-07-2009 4:52pm#1Back in the day Charles Darwin was stumped by the mystery of how flowers became so abundant. It would seem taht the mystery has now been solved.They postulate that the flowering plants were able to change the world to suit their own needs. They grew more rapidly and therefore required more nutrients. In a world that was poor in nutrients and was entirely dominated by the gymnosperms, that kept the soil poor - with their poorly degradable litter - flowering plants had great difficulties to establish. But at some locations where the gymnosperms had temporarily disappeared, for example due to floods, fires or storms, the angiosperms could increase so that they were capable of improving their own conditions with their easily degradable litter
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