The evolution of plants
This is a broad but provocative examination of the evolution of plants from the earliest forms of life to the development of our present flora. Taking a fresh, modern approach to a subject often treated very stuffily, the book incorporates many recent studies on the morphological evolution of plants...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Oxford u.a.
Oxford Univ. Press
c 2002
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | This is a broad but provocative examination of the evolution of plants from the earliest forms of life to the development of our present flora. Taking a fresh, modern approach to a subject often treated very stuffily, the book incorporates many recent studies on the morphological evolution of plants, enlivens the subject with current research on ancient DNA and other biomolecular markers, and places plant evolution in the context of climate change and mass extinction. It is written to be accessible to undergraduates, so, for example, geological time is discussed in terms of 'millions of years ago' as well as by the names of the ages, and English equivalents of plant names are preferred, e.g. seed plants (instead of gymnosperms), flowering plants (instead of angiosperms). |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p.[316] - 349) and index |
| Beschreibung: | X, 378 S. Ill., graph. Darst., Kt. 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 0198500653 0-19-850065-3 9780198500650 978-0-19-850065-0 |