Green Life Through Time

摘要

One may be forgiven for thinking that the field of paleobotany, with its focus on nonmotile, largely extinct organisms, should never be described as "fast-moving" except with tongue firmly in cheek. However, the molecular phylogenetics revolution, new fossil discoveries, and reinterpretations of existing material have catapulted our understanding of plant evolution ahead, leav-rning behind hypotheses and interpretations that were as good as fact a mere ten years ago.