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| The Emerald Planet. How Plants Changed Earth's Story | Buy a book...
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| Author(s): | D. Beerling |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| ISBN: | 9780192806024 |
| Format: | hardback |
| 288pp | |
| Price: | £14.99 |
| Review Date: | 08 March 2007 |
| Review: | This book tells of the evolution of plants over 540 million years, beginning with the Phanerozoic eon when plants and animals that define our modern world first evolved. By integrating plant physiology into paleobotany, we can recognise plants as new entities tracking Earth’s history. Newly found clues in fossil records show that plants have been agents for changing and moulding the Earth’s climate and affecting the evolutionary path of life. There are chapters on: leaves, genes and greenhouse gases; Oxygen and the lost world of giants; An ancient ozone catastrophe; The flourishing forests of Antarctica; Paradise lost; Nature’s green revolution; and Through a glass darkly. |