FIRST SURPRISE. “Surprise in the delayed appearance of a seemingly simple developmental modification is 3-fold. First, palaeontological evidence shows that the structural framework necessary for assembling a simple laminated leaf blade (meristem, vasculature, cuticle and epidermis) was in place long before the advent of large megaphylls.”
http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/96/3/345.full.pdf
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022