This graphic shows key events in the establishment of a land flora. These were the primordial terrestrialization event by a unicellular ancestral charophyte followed by evolution of a novel cell ...

The study, published in the journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, calls into question existing theories on the evolution of land plants. The researchers say the fossil ages ...

The world may need to start thinking differently about plants, according to a report in the journal Science by researchers who took a fresh look at spore-like microfossils with characteristics that ...

This book reexamines patterns of relationship among plant life history traits in phylogenetic perspective. The reexamination first recognizes that because evolution is a branching process, traits are ...

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 ... The Scientist 7. How the land ...