Paleobotany and the Evolution of Plants
2nd Edition
- Authors:
- Wilson N. Stewart, University of Alberta
- Gar W. Rothwell, Ohio University
- Date Published: January 2010
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521126083
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Originally published in 1993, this second edition of a successful textbook describes and explains in a refreshingly clear way the origin and evolution of plants as revealed by the fossil record and summarises paleobotanical information relevant to our understanding of the relationships between the major plant groups, extant and extinct. As in the first edition, the text is profusely illustrated with line illustrations and half-tones. For those students with little knowledge of plant structure and morphology there is a brief resumé of those features of extant plants that will be needed to gain a better understanding of the fossil record. Summarising charts are also used to help students visualise the interpretative material.
Read more- Reprint of the second edition of a highly successful textbook
- The text is profusely illustrated with line illustrations and half-tones
- Contains a brief guide to the features of extant plants which the student needs to understand in order to gain a fuller picture of the fossil record
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Review of the hardback: 'This textbook is well written and well researched. In all, it is a pleasure to own.' Nature
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Review of the hardback: 'I have seldom read a textbook with such enthusiasm and I shall recommend it to students and staff alike.' The Scientist
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- Edition: 2nd Edition
- Date Published: January 2010
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521126083
- length: 536 pages
- dimensions: 254 x 178 x 27 mm
- weight: 0.92kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
Preface to First Edition
1. Introduction
2. Plant fossils: preservation, preparation and age determination
3. The fossil record: systematics, reconstruction and nomenclature
4. Life in the Precambian
5. Diversification of the Fungi
6. Diversification among the algae and related plants
7. How the land turned green: speculation
8. How the land turned green: Bryophyta
9. How the land turned green: vascular plants, primitive types
10. The evolution of microphylls and adaxial sporangia
11. The isoetalean clade
12. Paleoecology of the Pennsylvanian coal swamps
13. More diversity in the Devonian: Trimerophytopsida
14. The origin of the Sphenopsida
15. Unique and extinct: the Upper Paleozoic sphenophylls
16. The origin of the horsetails
17. Putative ferns of the Paleozoic
18. The emergence of the Marattiales and Ophioglossales
19. Filicales of the Carboniferous
20. The emergence of the modern Filicales, Salviniales and Marsileales
21. Free-sporing plants with gymnospermous secondary wood
22. Gymnosperm reproduction: early evolution
23. Paleozoic gymnosperms with fernlike leaves
24. Cycads: origins and relationships
25. The enigmatic cycadeoids
26. More innovation and diversification among gymnosperms
27. The record of a living fossil: Ginkgo
28. The first coniferophytes
29. The diversification of conifers and taxads
30. The origin and early evolution of angiosperms
31. Angiosperms: diversification, radiation, and modernisation
32. Major evolutionary events and trends: in retrospect
Index.
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