How the Earth Turned Green: A Brief 3.8-Billion-Year History of Plants

On this blue planet, long before pterodactyls took to the skies and tyrannosaurs prowled the continents, tiny...
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Author: Joseph E. Armstrong
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How the Earth Turned Green: A Brief 3.8-Billion-Year History of Plants by Armstrong, Joseph E.

How the Earth Turned Green: A Brief 3.8-Billion-Year History of Plants

BD$120.18

How the Earth Turned Green: A Brief 3.8-Billion-Year History of Plants

BD$120.18
Author: Joseph E. Armstrong
Format: Paperback
Language: English
On this blue planet, long before pterodactyls took to the skies and tyrannosaurs prowled the continents, tiny green organisms populated the ancient oceans. Fossil and phylogenetic evidence suggests that chlorophyll, the green pigment responsible for coloring these organisms, has been in existence for some 85% of Earth's long history--that is, for roughly 3.5 billion years. In How the Earth Turned Green, Joseph E. Armstrong traces the history of these verdant organisms, which many would call plants, from their ancient beginnings to the diversity of green life that inhabits the Earth today.

Using an evolutionary framework, How the Earth Turned Green addresses questions such as: Should all green organisms be considered plants? Why do these organisms look the way they do? How are they related to one another and to other chlorophyll-free organisms? How do they reproduce? How have they changed and diversified over time? And how has the presence of green organisms changed the Earth's ecosystems? More engaging than a traditional textbook and displaying an astonishing breadth, How the Earth Turned Green will both delight and enlighten embryonic botanists and any student interested in the evolutionary history of plants.

Author: Joseph E. Armstrong
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 07/08/2015
Pages: 576
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.75lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.10w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780226069777


Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2015 pg. 1174

About the Author
Joseph E. Armstrong is an award-winning teacher, professor of botany, head curator of the Vasey Herbarium, and director of the Organismal Biology and Public Outreach Sequence for Biological Sciences Majors, all at Illinois State University.

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