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SUDDEN APPEARANCE of flowering plants. “The abrupt origin and rapid diversification of the flowering plants during the Cretaceous has long been considered an “abominable mystery.” https://lnkd.in/gFWYaxX View in LinkedIn

SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS. "No one group of observers has a monopoly on truth, and the history of western science makes it quite clear that the scientific truths of today will, in ever-decreasing intervals of time, constitute the bulk of tomorrow's discarded hypotheses and superseded knowledge." https://lnkd.in/dvpgYsT View in LinkedIn

"GREGORY BATESON, has argued "that relationships should be used as a basis for all definitions...Anything...should be defined not by what it is in itself, but by its relations to other things" https://lnkd.in/dvpgYsT View in LinkedIn

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RELATIONAL WORLD. "It is as well to consider that scientists now also understand that, at a fundamental level, certain phenomena are best understood not as being composed of isolated entities that can be studied as such, but rather they can better be understood by means of the influence they have on other phenomena. In other words, by means of their systemic relationships, outside of which they in fact cease to be definable." https://lnkd.in/dvpgYsT View in LinkedIn

VIRAL AND BACTERIAL GENE DRIVERS. "Similar to the emergence and evolution of eukaryotic cells, evolution of land plants was also shaped and driven by infective and symbiotic microorganisms. These microorganisms are the driving force behind the evolution of plant synapses and other neuronal aspects of higher plants; this is especially pronounced in the root apices." http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fcimb.2013.00044/full View in LinkedIn

"PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY of plants is based on the polar auxin transport machinery that is directly linked with plant sensory systems impinging on plant behavior and adaptive responses." (Phenotypic plasticity is regarded by many as the tangible outcome of plant computation). http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fcimb.2013.00044/full View in LinkedIn

COMPLEXITY AND COMMUNICATION. "In the course of plant evolution, there is an obvious trend toward an increased complexity of plant bodies, as well as an increased sophistication of plant behavior and communication." http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fcimb.2013.00044/full View in LinkedIn

ABOMINABLE MYSTERY. "The evolution of land plants, especially the sudden appearance of flowering plants, represents one of the great mysteries for evolutionary theory. Indeed, Charles Darwin characterized this sudden origin and rapid evolution of flowering plants as the “abominable mystery”." https://lnkd.in/eDvT22D View in LinkedIn

SALTATIONS. "Many species remain virtually unchanged for millions of years, then suddenly disappear to be replaced by a quite different, but related, form. Moreover, most major groups of animals appear abruptly in the fossil record, fully formed, and with no fossils yet discovered that form a transition from their parent group."" "C.P. Hickman, L.S. Roberts, and F.M. Hickman, Integrated Principles of Zoology, p. 866 (Times Mirror/Moseby College Publishing, 1988, 8th ed). View in LinkedIn