Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Abstract and Keywords
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Origin of Life on the Primitive Earth
Chapter 2. The Collective Geological Histories of Life and Time through the Lens of Paleobotany
Chapter 3. Evolution of Plant Life on Planet Earth through Geological Time Scale: A Tale of Spatiotemporal Disintegration of Pangaea in the Middle of Panthalsa
Chapter 4. Evolutionary Stepping Stone: The Alternation of Generations, Origin and Evolution of Sex in Algae
Chapter 5. Consecutive-Evolution of Thallophytes-1 (Algae): Transmigration from Water to Land Along with Metamorphosis from Prokaryotic to Eukaryotic Form
Chapter 6. Alternation of Generations; Evolution of Sporophytes & Gametophytes in Embryophytes
Chapter 7. Evolution of Thallophytes-2 (Embryophytes): An Enigmatic Story of Amphibian Migration and Terrestrial Colonization
Chapter 8. Evolution of Tracheophytes: Pteridophytes – An Era of Post-Migratory Diversifications in Quest of Spermatophytes
Chapter 9. Evolution of Ancient Spermatophytes Gymnosperms: Peeping Through the Temporal Mirror
Chapter 10. Origin of Seed Habit on Primitive Earth: A Perceptional Overview
Chapter 11. Predominance and Evanescence of Gymnosperms and Dawn of Angiosperms in the Jurassic Garden of Dinosaurs
Chapter 12. Palaeobotanical Evidences, New Phylogenetic Interpretations: Co-Evolution of Angiosperms and Animals in Post-Cretaceous Regime
Chapter 13. Palaeo-Icehouse, Paleo-Greenhouse and Hypoxia: Evolution of Angiosperms through the Bottleneck of Five Mass-Extinctions
Chapter 14. Co-Evolutionary Mutualism of Plants and Resident Insects: Role in Radiation of Angiosperms
Chapter 15. Evolution of Angiosperms and the Challenges of Evolutionary Taxonomy
Chapter 16. Evolution of Angiosperms – Palaeobotanical, Molecular Foot-Prints and the Universal Tree of Life and ANITA Group of Basal Angiosperms
Chapter 17. Angiosperms – On Temporal Specs: Walking through Hypothetical Oddments
Chapter 18. In Quest of Pre-Cretaceous Angiosperms: Following Palaeo-Palynological Foot-Prints of Circumpolles and Crinopolles
Chapter 19. Cladogenesis of Seed Plants – In Special Reference to Divergence and Radiation of Flowering Plants
Chapter 20. The Mysteries of Mesozoic since Permian & Birth of Basal Angiosperms: ANA or ANITA (Alias Anhita)
Chapter 21. Phytogeography: The Dispersal, Migration in Relation to Gateway of Angiospermy
Chapter 22. The Origin and Dispersal of Flowering Plants in Relation to Geological Gateways
Chapter 23. Long Distance Dispersal and Migration of Flowering Plants since Radiation of Angiosperms during Post-Cretaceous Era
Chapter 24. The Contemporary Floristic Regions of the Blue Planet (Earth)
Chapter 25. Phytoendemism of Flowering Plants: Categorisation in Relation to Evolution of Plants on the Earth
Chapter 26. Domestication of the Wild Flowering Species to the Cultivated Crops through Anthropocene: Paeonia – A Case Study
Chapter 27. Plant Extinctions- Is it Plunging in Darkness or Emerging from Shadows of Evolution?
References
Index
Reviews
“The concepts in the book have been described so precisely especially in regard with angiosperms. The readers will surely enjoy reading the evolution of life on earth over the 4 billion years. His intellectual ideas while writing the book will definitely leave an impact on readers.” – Dr. Miss Preeti V. Phate,HOD & Assistant Professor, Department of Botany, J.S.M. College, Alibag, Indi
“Evolutionary biology may still be the complicated alley for many but in Origin and Evolution of Plants on the Earth and the descendants of ANITA the concept has been simplified with regard to Angiosperms. The book walks the readers through the pathway of a series of events resulting in evolution in different branches of life on earth over the last 4 billion years. The theory explains the green planet from the pre-existing “Dark Planet” to “Blue Planet” while touching areas like spatiotemporal changes, aqua life as well as organic and inorganic evolution. While the mystery of evolution has stirred all from the shape of a flower to sliding continents, the writer explains in elaboration his standpoint with relevance. This non-fictional piece of work changes perspective to life and leaves the readers with curiosity to wonder more. Dr Subir Ranjan Kundu has discussed multifaceted aspects of evolutionary characteric vis a vis physical process of earth and surrounding atmospheric condition at different span of earth history. I congratulate him for his effort to put forward compressive discussion on very complicated but important strategies of evolutionary features of plants and animals. The book will be useful to students, teachers and scientific colleagues of different universities, colleges, scientific institutes and other organizations.” – Prof. A. K. Srivastava, F.Pb.S., F.P.S., F. N. R.S., M.N.A.Sc, Former Scientist-G, Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, Lucknow & Former Professor and Head, Department of Biosciences, Integral University, Lucknow
Additional Information
Keywords: Evolution, Angiosperms, ANITA.
The target audience for my book can range from advanced science enthusiasts, researchers to graduate students and younger masses whoever want to grow their understanding of this world, especially the most abundant vegetation in this world came to evolve and exist.
