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Plant Evolution An Introduction to the History of Life

By: Karl J Niklas(Author)
577 pages, 144 colour photos and colour illustrations, 16 b/w photos, 24 b/w illustrations, 20 tables
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Although plants comprise more than 90% of all visible life, and land plants and algae collectively make up the most morphologically, physiologically, and ecologically diverse group of organisms on earth, books on evolution instead tend to focus on animals. This organismal bias has led to an incomplete and often erroneous understanding of evolutionary theory. Because plants grow and reproduce differently from animals, they have evolved differently, and generally accepted evolutionary views – as, for example, the standard models of speciation – often fail to hold when applied to them.

Tapping such wide-ranging topics as genetics, gene regulatory networks, phenotype mapping, and multicellularity, as well as paleobotany, Karl J. Niklas's Plant Evolution: An Introduction to the History of Life offers fresh insight into these differences. Following up on his landmark book The Evolutionary Biology of Plants – in which he drew on cutting-edge computer simulations that used plants as models to illuminate key evolutionary theories – Niklas incorporates data from more than a decade of new research in the flourishing field of molecular biology, conveying not only why the study of evolution is so important, but also why the study of plants is essential to our understanding of evolutionary processes. Niklas shows us that investigating the intricacies of plant development, the diversification of early vascular land plants, and larger patterns in plant evolution is not just a botanical pursuit: it is vital to our comprehension of the history of all life on this green planet.

Contents

Preface

Introduction
Chapter 1: Origins and Early Events
Chapter 2: The Invasion of Land and Air
Chapter 3: Population Genetics, Adaptation, and Evolution
Chapter 4: Development and Evolution
Chapter 5: Speciation and Microevolution
Chapter 6: Macroevolution
Chapter 7: The Evolution of Multicellularity
Chapter 8: Biophysics and Evolution
Chapter 9: Ecology and Evolution

Glossary
Index

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Biography

Karl J. Niklas is the Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Plant Biology and a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow in the Plant Biology Section of the School of Integrative Plant Science at Cornell University. He is the author of Plant Biomechanics, Plant Allometry, and The Evolutionary Biology of Plants, and coauthor of Plant Physics, all published by the University of Chicago Press. He lives in Ithaca, NY.

By: Karl J Niklas(Author)
577 pages, 144 colour photos and colour illustrations, 16 b/w photos, 24 b/w illustrations, 20 tables
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"In a true tour de force, Niklas assays the mechanisms and patterns of evolution, from molecules to ecosystems, using plants as examples. Must-reading for plant scientists, Plant Evolution will both delight and challenge everyone who peers into the heart of biology."
– Andrew Knoll, Harvard University

"This is a work of scholarship and of imagination, offering great insight onto patterns of plant evolution and the underlying processes that drive those patterns. It will attract a wide range of biologists as researchers and as teachers, some coming to it as evolutionary biologists, some as botanists and paleobotanists, some as physiologists and geneticists. All will be attracted by the general review of the evolutionary forces affecting plants, by the cutting edge research it summarizes, and by the interesting ideas and totally new insights interleaved throughout – several of which are cutting edge in their own right."
– Bruce H. Tiffney, University of California, Santa Barbara

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