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  title info:
    non sort: The
  title info: title
  name:
    name part: Willis, K.J.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: K.J. Willis; J.C. McElwai
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: 2002
    date issued: 9999
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: und
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 378 p.
    extent: ill.
    extent: 25 cm
  abstract: A major new undergraduate textbook on plant evoution 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 prefered, e.g. seed plants (instead of gymnosperms), flowering plants (instead of angiosperms). * Links up the trends/patterns seen in the fossil flora from the earliest green algae through to the present day. * Covers the whole geological timescale, but focuses the chapters on periods when major evolutionary changes occurred. * Special Biome Maps indicate the general trends in changing global plant distribution through time.
  note: K.J. Willis, J.C. McElwai
  subject:
    topic: Plants
  classification: 581.38
  classification: W734
  identifier: 0198500653
  identifier: 9780198500650
  record info:
    record creation date: 210423
    record identifier: TVU_11045