gingko Type post Author David Coppedge Date October 5, 2023 CategoriesBotanyEvolutionLife Sciences Tagged , abominable mystery, algae, angiosperms, Cambrian Explosion, conifers, Darwinian gradualism, ferns, flowering plants, gymnosperms, lycophytes, miracles, morphospace, mosses, Nature Plants, Philip C. J. Donoghue, pine tree, punctuated equilibria, The Conversation, trilobites, University of Bristol, vascular plants Plant Evolution: All Gaps and Miracles David Coppedge October 5, 2023 Botany, Evolution, Life Sciences 9 A major study looks for evolution, but finds huge disparities, stasis, gaps, periodic explosions, and miracles of emergence held together with imagination. Read More ›
Red-pea gall Type post Author Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig Date December 14, 2020 CategoriesAnatomyBotanyLife Sciences Tagged , bacteria, Carl Linnaeus, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, evolution, ferns, fungi, Hippocrates, history, lycophytes, Marcello Malpighi, mites, morphology, natural selection, nematodes, neo-Darwinians, plant galls, Rutgers University, viruses Plant Galls and Evolution: A Neglected Study Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig December 14, 2020 Anatomy, Botany, Life Sciences 5 In my new contribution, I restrict myself to important facets of the historical side of plant gall research. Read More ›