#  A Look At Flowers Millions of Years Ago 

 





August 02, 2017

 

 

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**News from the Friedman Lab!**

Flowering plants, which arose approximately 140 million years ago, are the most diverse group of plants on Earth. The evolution of these plants and why so diverse is a biology mystery. OEB Ph.D. student, **Kristel Schoonderwoerd** (**Friedman** Lab) is part of an international effort, the eFLOWER Project, which aims to reconstruct the evolution of flowers. The [study in Nature Communications](https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms16047), reveals insight into the early evolution of flowers and the major patterns found across all living flowering plants.

##### Image: Copyright: 3-D model from eFLOWER, Hervé Sauquet/Jürg Schönenberger (study co-authors)



 

 

 



 

 

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