Paleobotany: the biology and evolution of fossil plants. Edith L. Taylor, Michael Krings, Thomas N. Taylor

Paleobotany: the biology and evolution of fossil plants


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Paleobotany: the biology and evolution of fossil plants Edith L. Taylor, Michael Krings, Thomas N. Taylor
Publisher: Academic Press




Paleobotany is the branch of paleontology dealing with the recovery and identification of plant remains from geological contexts, and their place in the reconstruction of past environments and the history of life. Paleobotany includes the study of terrestrial plant fossils biology with the methods and findings of paleontology. The Biology and Evolution of Fossil Plants. Originally, Cindy was going to attend a biannual workshop of the Evolution of Terrestrial Ecosystem Program. The study of plants in the fossil record, in order to understand both the evolution of plant life and the ecology of ancient eras, is known as paleobotany. ȿ�是一本经过30多年精心打造而不断完善的英文版古植物学教科书,它很厚重、很精致,值得我们学习学习再学习。该书基本信息如下:. Sir Crane, with a background in paleobotany (the study of plant fossils) has researched for years the history of some of the oldest Ginkgos. Ĺ�名:“Paleobotany: the biology and evolution of fossil plants”. Fossil pollen from Central and West Africa provide no definitive evidence for communities of rainforest trees at the beginning of the Cenozoic, says Jacobs, an expert in the paleobotany of Africa soon after dinosaurs had gone extinct. The fossil record shows that the different classes of plants emerged all of a sudden in the world, each with its own particular characteristics, and with no period of evolution behind it. Origin of the The impossibility of plant cells' having evolved from a bacterial cell has not prevented evolutionary biologists from producing speculative hypotheses. Typical paleobiological research attempts to answer biological questions using geological objects such as fossils found in the field. It was the start of the age of mammals, and Africa was largely an For a continent so important for its role in the evolution of mammals, the scarcity of plant fossil data stands in sharp contrast. In his book The Paleology of Angiosperm Origins, the evolutionary paleobotanist N. Palaeobotany is a diverse field in its own right, with a rich history and many gripping stories of how life evolved on earth, and among many other things it gives us crucial insight into the climate patterns of the past and their development. "A splendid gift for anyone interested in the evolution of terrestrial life.