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This is your 15-part guide to the evolution of the world's plants.

Take the journey of life through the ages, exploring the amazing ways that plants have evolved an adapted to the changing conditions on Earth.

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Table of Contents:

	1		The Beginning of Life on Earth
	2		Hurdles of Land Colonisation
	3		The First Vascular Land Plants
	4		The First Vascular Land Plants II
	5		The Victorian Baragwanathia Flora
	6		The Mega Clubmoss Flora
	7		The Seed Ferns and Cordaites
	8		The Flora of the Permian: The Seed Plants Dominate
	9		What Were the Glossopterids?
	10		The Reproductive Structures of the Glossoperids
	11		A Time of Change: The Triassic
	12		The ‘Golden Days’ of the Conifers and Cycads
	13		The Arrival of the Angiosperms (Flowering Plants)
	14		Monocots: The Tertiary and Grass Evolution
	15		The Final Chapter: Herbaceous Angiosperms

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Adam Dimech's Plant Evolution is your complete guide to the evolution of the world's plants, from single-celled algae to the modern giants of the forest.

Discover how plants have evolved and changed over the past 2.1 billion years.

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Site launched: September 2004. Last updated: January 2009.


FEATURES:			PLANT EVOLUTION TOUR:
Introduction	Wollemi Pine	What is a fossil?	Beginnings of Life	Glossopterids
About	Ginkgoales (Ginkgo)	Natural Selection	Hurdles of Land Colonisation	Glossopterid Reproduction
References	Psilotum nudum	What is a species?	Vascular Land Plants 1	Triassic: Time of Change
		Fossil dating	Vascular Land Plants 2	Conifers and Cycads
Plant Evolution Tour		Evolution Timeline	Victorian Baragwanathia Flora	Angiosperms (Flowering Plants)
Australian Flora		Continental drift	Mega Clubmoss Flora	Monocots: Tertiary Grasses
		Continental time maps	Seed Ferns & Cordaites	Herbaceous Angiosperms
			Permian: Seed Plants