194 - Simon Conway Morris on Convergent Evolution & Creative Mass Extinctions
Humans On The Loop: Wisdom for an Age of Magical Technologies
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The Success of Flowering Plants
The fossil record of flowering plants actually goes way back possibly into the triassic before they're kind of classically recognized as appearing on the surface. There was some suggestion that around the same time you know like in the Cretaceous you start seeing psychoactive fungi like ergot species living on flowering plants and somebody made an argument that certain of the dinosaurs that didn't make it across the Jurassic Cretaceous boundary were not capable of digesting some of the the flowering plants or the fungi associated with them. They basically got poisoned out, according to a theory by Richard Doyle who wrote this book Darwin's Pharmacy Sex Plants in the evolution of the noosphere. It seems to me like this may
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