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When Plants Took over the Planet : The Amazing Story of Plant Evolution.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thorogood, Chris.
- Series:
- Incredible Evolution
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Plants.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (66 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : QEB Publishing Inc., 2021.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- This beautifully illustrated book follows the amazing story of plant evolution, from the first plants arriving on a dark and lifeless planet to the colorful--often weird and wonderful--world of today's varied and vibrant plant life.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Where Do Plants Come From?
- Our Green Planet
- The Plant Family Tree
- When Seaweeds Surfaced
- Astonishing Algae
- When Plants Conquered Land
- Lost Lycopods
- When Leaves Unfolded
- When Ferns Unfurled
- Flourishing Ferns
- When Horsetails Were Huge
- Living Fossils
- When Seed Plants Surfaced
- Taking over
- When Seed Plants Spread
- Cycad Survivors
- When Conifers Conquered
- Colossal Conifers
- When Flowers Formed
- When Flowers Flourished
- Peculiar Paleo Plants
- Water Lily Wilderness
- Magnificent Magnolias
- Bizarre Birthworts
- A Multitude of Monocots
- Extraordinary Orchids
- Eudicot Dominance
- Flowering Plants Today
- Plants and People
- Plant Safari
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Thorogood, Chris When Plants Took over the Planet
- ISBN:
- 9780711261273
- 071126127X
- OCLC:
- 1264399964
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