[PCA] NEWS: Where Did All the Flowers Come From?

[Olivia Kwong]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/08/science/08flower.html?_r=1&ref=science

Where Did All the Flowers Come From?
By CARL ZIMMER
Published: September 7, 2009

Throughout his life, Charles Darwin surrounded himself with flowers. When 
he was 10, he wrote down each time a peony bloomed in his father's garden. 
When he bought a house to raise his own family, he turned the grounds into 
a botanical field station where he experimented on flowers until his 
death. But despite his intimate familiarity with flowers, Darwin once 
wrote that their evolution was "an abominable mystery."

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