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From Utagawa Hiroshige's lush prints of cherry blossoms to the sparse botanical drawings of Ellsworth Kelly, flowers have been a perennial motif across art history. But while some petaled species are ...

Newswise — A big part of evolution is competition-- when there are limited resources to go around, plants and animals have to duke it out for nutrients, mates, and places to live. That means that the ...