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Annals of Botany 2007 100(7):1605-1606; doi:10.1093/aob/mcm261
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The emerald planet

The emerald planet
D. Beerling 2007.
Oxford: Oxford University Press. £14·99 (hardback). 288 pp.

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The title of this slim book doesn't give too much away. The sub-title ‘How plants changed Earth's history’ is more informative. Immediately we understand that it is about plants; but these are plants as central characters in a drama that takes place on the global stage, not cast in the more usual role as bit-part players. However, the sub-title is also intriguingly – and deliberately – ambiguous; on the one hand this book is about the use of fossil plants as sources of evidence that are changing our views of the earth's . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Nigel Chaffey

E-mail n.chaffey@bathspa.ac.uk


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