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Kingdom of Plants: A Journey Through Their Evolution Book
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The Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew are the world's premiere botanical gardens. With a rich history of collecting and categorising plant species from across the globe it stands today as a unique microcosm in which we can explore the entire plant world. In the last 500 million years plants have undertaken an epic journey that has not only spanned the geological ages but has altered the very make-up of the planet forever. This was a journey that began in a dark and acidic world an imposing landscape of barren lifelessness and ends with a planet that is draped with rich colours overflowing with endless ornate shapes and forms and filled with a swirling vortex of mesmerising smells. Today the plant world is a rich web of biodiversity with exploding pollen grains snapping carnivorous plants and mystifying orchids. Plants though are far more than just beautiful and bizarre. Through the chapters of this book we unfurl the evidence that tells the tale of how plants first began to live on land and how they have come to fill their place in the natural world today. This is a tale that reaches deep into the soil beneath our feet and high into the atmosphere about our heads.The very first slime-like cells that established themselves as our planet's first 'plants' over four hundred million years ago appear so far detached from the most elaborate and complex flowers and plants that cover our world today and yet every single stage of their incredible journey has been integral to creating this world we live in today. It is only through pulling apart the strands that create our planet's rich network of flora that we can begin to uncover the extraordinary ways in which plants have come to live and thrive in the harshest conditions and how an understanding of them can provide us with the answers to many of the problems that face mankind in our modern age. Accompanying the major television series this book will be richly illustrated with over 200 stunning photographs and will include an introduction by David Attenborough.
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The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew are the world's premiere botanical gardens. With a rich history of collecting and categorising plant species from across the globe, it stands today as a unique microcosm in which we can explore the entire plant world. In the last 500 million years, plants have undertaken an epic journey that has not only spanned the ages but has altered the very make-up of the planet. It was a journey that began in a dark and barren world, and has culminated in a planet that is draped in rich colours, and overflowing with a diversity of mystifying orchids, exploding seed pods and snapping carnivorous plants. But plants are far more than just beautiful and bizarre. Through the chapters of this book we uncover how plants first began to live on land, how they have become linked with a multitude of animal and fungi partners, and how ultimately they have shaped both landscapes and cultures. With an introduction by Professor Stephen Hopper, Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, as well as contributions from leading botanists and horticulturists, this book unpicks the strands of our planet's network of botanical life. Through its pages we reveal the extraordinary ways in which plants have come to live and thrive in all habitats, and we discover how they can provide us with answers to many of the problems that face humanity in our modern age. This book accompanies the landmark television series Kingdom of Plants 3D: With David Attenborough. For more information, please visit: www.kingdomofplants.com
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This book accompanies the landmark television series Kingdom of Plants 3D: With David Attenborough.
- 0007463332
- 9780007463336
- Will Benson
- 7 June 2012
- Collins
- Hardcover (Book)
- 256
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