The study, based on analysing the genes of living plants, overturns theories based purely on fossil plant evidence. "Land plants emerged on land half a billion years ago, tens of millions of years ...

With extensive illustrations of plant fossils and living plants, the book encourages readers to think of fossils as once-living organisms. It is written for students on introductory or intermediate ...

like a plant, and through consuming other beings, like an animal. These aquatic organisms split off from other eukaryotes ...