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ALTHOUGH in recent years botanists have been mainly interested in the study of growing plants, many of their generalizations are based on a belief that evolution has taken place in the plant world. But since very little historical evidence of the evolution of the flowering plants has been forthcoming, this belief has become a dogma, maintained in spite of the absence of proof. This unsatisfactory position, said Dr. H. Hamshaw Thomas, in his presidential address to Section K (Botany), warrants a survey of our present knowledge of the fossil record.
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The History of Plant Form. Nature 160, 288–289 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160288b0
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