Introduction to Palaeobotany

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The book "Introduction to palaeobotany" provides an authoritative review account of many aspects of Palaeobotany and current progress in the field of botany that has been made in the recent past. Plants have been in existence on land and sea for several Millennia and have contributed much to the formation of coal, lignite and oil. It will offer greater scope to the earth scientists and palaeobotanists, for deciphering the age of the strata and the environment they lived in. The entire book is arranged in eleven chapters commencing from introduction to palaeobotany. The earliest organic life to the more advanced forms of the angiosperms to make the book more comprehensive and understandable. Further, several line drawings of individual fossils with brief descriptions are provided. During the last five decades, new discoveries of plant fossils have been made from different sedimentary terrains. It became imperative to include all the research work carried out by research scholars to make the book more up to date. The origin and evolution of plants commencing from Precambrian to tertiary has been included. This text book gives an insight to plant fossils. It is sincerely hoped that this book will be useful to graduate and post-graduate students of all universities.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Peter George

Peter George is Associate Professor of Biology at the University of South Florida. He earned B.S. in Biological Sciences (Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics) at Cornell University and Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona, where he researched the Ecology, Genetics, and Evolution of Annual Plants in the Sonoran and Chihuahuan Deserts.His postdoctoral work at the University of Callifornia, Dr. George concentrated on theoretical population genetics. His current research interests include: Population Dynamics of Plants in a stochastic world; The ecology of Populations in Fire-Prone Regions; The Ecology and Evolution of Reproductive timing in plants; and Applications of Population Ecology for conservation of endangered plants.