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Title Origin and early evolution of angiosperms / edited by Charles B. Beck
Published New York : Columbia University Press, 1976

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Description 341 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Origin and early evolution of angiosperms: a perspective / Charles B. Beck -- Cretaceous paleobotanic problems/ N.F. Hughes -- Middle cretaceous floral provinces and early migrations of augiosperms / Gilbert J. Brenner -- Plate tectonics and its bearing on the geographical origin and dispersal of angiosperms / Rudolf M. Schuster -- Pollen and leaves from the mid-cretaceous potomac group and their bearing on early angiosperm evolution / James A. Doyle, Leo J. Hickey -- Neoteny and the origin of flowering plants / Armen Takhtajan -- Evolutionary significance of chromosomal differentiation patterns in gymnosperms and primitive angiosperms / F. Ehrendorfer -- Comparative pollen morphology and phylogeny of the ranalean complex / James W. Walker -- Seeds, seedlings, and the origin of angiosperms / G. Ledyard Stebbins -- Character correlations among angiosperms and the importance of fossil evidence in assessing their significance / Kenneth R. Sporne
Analysis Fossil flowering plants Evolution
Notes "Most of the papers ... were presented ... at the First International Congress of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology in Boulder."
Bibliography Includes bibliographies and index
Subject Angiosperms -- Evolution -- Congresses.
Angiosperms -- Evolution.
Angiosperms -- Origin -- Congresses.
Angiosperms, Fossil -- Congresses.
Angiosperms, Fossil.
Angiosperms.
Plants -- Evolution.
Biological Evolution.
Evolution
Paleontology.
Plants.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Beck, Charles B.
International Congress of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology (1st : 1973 : Boulder, Colo.)
LC no. 75015939
ISBN 0231038577