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We might continue from Carboniferous time to the present detailing the new types of plants that evolved. But it may be more instructive to stop, examine the whole picture, and pose another question. Has evolution proceeded at a uniform rate since the beginning or have there been some major bursts of activity?
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Axelrod, D. I., and H. P. Bailey, “Cretaceous Dinosaur Extinction,” Evolution, 22 (1968), pp. 595–611. Explains the concept of effective temperature and its relation to extinctions.
Camp, W. H., “Studies in the Ericales: A Review of North American Gaylussacieae, with Remarks on the Origin and Migration of the Group,” Bulletin of the Torrey Bot. Club, 68 (1941), pp. 531–551. Discusses evolution in the huckleberries.
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Newell, N. D., “Crises in the History of Life,” Scientific American, 208 (1963), pp. 77–92. An interesting account of the extinction of numerous animal groups.
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Rensch, Bernhard, Evolution above the Species Level (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1959). Discusses the evolution of larger groups — families, orders, classes.
Seward, A. C., Plant Life through the Ages (London, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1931). A broad account of plant life around the world through geologic time.
Stebbins, G. L., Processes of Organic Evolution (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1966). An excellent account of mechanisms of evolution.
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Banks, H.P. (1970). Evolution — an Overview. In: Evolution and Plants of the Past. Fundamentals of Botany Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-01818-5_7
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