Willis, K.J., McElwain, J.C. The evolution of plants

This book, aimed at undergraduates, deals mostly with the informationthat can be gleaned about plant evolution from the fossil record.In some sense, its broad title is slightly misleading becauseother topics central to plant evolution such as genetic changein populations and mechanisms of speciation are hardly covered.After a brief introduction to the geological timescale, typesof fossil and how they are dated, the central six chapters formingthe bulk of the book follow a chronological journey. This takesthe reader from the appearance of the first photosynthesizers,to the colonization of the land, through to the evolution anddominance of