Estimated time of appearance colors Scientists from Britain and China introduced a new estimate of the age of flowering plants and tried to explain why previous studies using different methods gave very different results. Details of the study can be found in the journal New Phytologist. Existing estimates of the time of emergence of flowering plants is done either using molecular methods, either based on paleontological data. Studies of fossils of flowering plants show that they are quite young and became numerous and varied in the second half of the Cretaceous period, along with the spread of insect pollinators. The method of molecular clock pushes the appearance of colors further away from the present moment, allowing you to assume that part of their evolution invisible to paleontologists. “For the most part the differences in the estimates of the two approaches is the result of a lack of precision as paleontological
