The evolution of the seed represents a remarkable life‐history transition for photosynthetic
organisms. Here, we review the recent literature and historical understanding of how and …

The timing of the origin of angiosperms is a hotly debated topic in plant evolution. Molecular
dating analyses that consistently retrieve pre‐Cretaceous ages for crown‐group …

Plants have utterly transformed the planet, but testing hypotheses of causality requires a
reliable time‐scale for plant evolution. While clock methods have been extensively …

Angiosperms (flowering plants) are the most diverse of all major lineages of land plants and
the dominant autotrophs in most terrestrial ecosystems. Their evolutionary and ecological …

Neither direct fossil evidence nor consensus exists on the origin of the Ginkgoales and their
phylogenetic relationships with other seed plants. The bases for assigning most Palaeozoic …

Inferences on the origin of the angiosperm flower require consideration of other seed plants,
especially fossils. Molecular data favor a relationship of Gnetales to conifers rather than to …

The origin of angiosperms has been a long-standing botanical debate. The great diversity of
angiosperms in the Early Cretaceous makes the Jurassic a promising period in which to …

Abstract The northeastern Chinese Yanliao Biota (sometimes called the Daohugou Biota)
comprises numerous, frequently spectacular fossils of non‐marine organisms, occurring in …

Angiosperms are the most diversified plant group in the world, being represented by ca
300,000 species in about 400 families. Like all of Life, including ourselves, they have had …

Five great taxonomic extinctions (the so‐called 'Big Five Mass Extinctions') are widely
recognized in life history, at the end of the Ordovician, Frasnian (Late Devonian), Permian …