The Evolution of Plants (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Griffen, Benjamin Henry

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 144005486X ISBN 13 : 9781440054860

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Explore how natural selection shaped plant life from ferns to seed plants.

This book explains the Darwinian theory and shows how plants have adapted over deep time, linking ideas about variation, inheritance, and survival to the world of gardens, crops, and wild flora.

Readers will learn how cultivated plants trace back to wild ancestors, how natural selection provides a natural explanation for adaptation, and how the major plant groups evolved. The text connects classic ideas with fossil evidence to map the rise of seed plants from spore-bearing relatives and to describe the long history of plant life on Earth.

• Clear, accessible explanations of evolution, natural selection, and adaptation in plants.
• An overview of major plant groups, including ferns, lycophytes, horsetails, and the seed-bearing lineages.
• Context for fossil evidence and how ancient plants relate to modern crops and garden species.

Ideal for readers of science histories and anyone curious about how plants became the diverse life forms we rely on today.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Evolution is an attempt to answer the question, What was the origin of all the multitude of forms of living animals and plants which now people the earth? This question, so natural to ask, was long regarded by the majority of competent naturalists as insoluble. Though we cannot, in the nature of things, have any direct knowledge of the origin of nature species (i. e. the different kinds of wild plants and animals), yet there are a great many familiar and often very distinct forms of living things, of which we do know the history, in whole or in part. These are our cultivated plants whole or in part. These are our cultivated plants and domestic animals.
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Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 144005486X
• ISBN 13: 9781440054860
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 264
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