How does Endlicher's work relate to modern plant evolution?
My efforts to categorize plants based on their inherent relationships, even without the full framework of evolutionary theory as understood today, foreshadowed modern phylogenetic approaches. By focusing on shared characteristics and attempting to group species into natural orders, I was implicitly recognizing patterns of descent and common ancestry. This foundational work in systematic botany provided essential data and conceptual frameworks for later, more explicit investigations into plant evolution.
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