Why did the world buy flowers? (Replay)
Audio 48:30
By: Caroline Lachowsky
Appeared, only 150 million years ago, how did flowering plants, intelligent manipulators and sexually unbridled, use all their finery to colonize the planet?
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A world without flowers seems completely unimaginable today. And yet the Earth has been without it for almost 300 million years. How did we get into the flower age? Since when, and why, have plants flowered in every way possible and imaginable? How to explain such evolutionary success? Such a diversity of colors, shapes, scents in flowering plants?
With:
- Francois Parcy, CNRS research director at the Laboratory of Cellular and Plant Physiology (CNRS / Inra / CEA / Université Grenoble Alpes). He is the author of the book The Secret History of Flowers , published by Humensciences .
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