Which Came First - Flowers or Bees?

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Bees and flowers have an amazingly close relationship. Flowers need bees in order to reproduce, and bees need flowers to feed their colonies. Take away one, and the other would disappear too. It begs the question: When it comes to evolution, which came first, the bees or the flowers?

Book recommendation:
"A Sting in the Tale" by Dave Goulson, a great scientific and cultural history of bees http://amzn.to/1BcytS5

Special thanks to the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin, TX for letting us hang out with their bees and flowers! https://www.wildflower.org/

More info/sources:
http://www.scientificamerican.....com/article/the-begu

http://www.the-scientist.com/?....articles.view/articl

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story..../20141017-how-flower

http://science.nationalgeograp....hic.com/science/preh


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