"mystery" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Of particular interest to botanists is what Darwin described as an abominable mystery : the origin of flowering plants.
- PAGE C1 Uncovering Plants' Origins Biologists have answered a question that Darwin called the "abominable mystery": how did the world's flowering plants first evolve?
- Comparing characteristics of this basal angiosperm, other flowering plants and fossils may provide clues about how flowers first appeared-what Darwin called the "abominable mystery".
- One question scientists hope to answer is Darwin's "abominable mystery"; when, where, and why flowering plants emerged.
- Now, they are at last gaining clues into what Charles Darwin described as an "abominable mystery," the evolution of the most important plant group alive.
- The apparently sudden appearance of relatively modern flowers in the fossil record posed such a problem for the theory of evolution that it was called an "abominable mystery" by Charles Darwin.
- Just why plants gave up their sleepy, asexual ways isn't clear; Charles Darwin called it "an abominable mystery."
- The first and second floors contained a dozen rooms in which these abominable mysteries were practised.
- The rapid development as far as we can judge of all the higher plants within recent geological times is an abominable mystery.
- Ultimately, said Dennis Stevenson, the garden's vice president for botanical science, some of its long-term research could provide answers to "what Darwin called the abominable mystery - when, where and why flowering plants emerged."
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