At head of title: Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences [and] the H. Rausing Foundation.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-258) and index.
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Making of the type. Angiosperms and Magnoliopsida. Classes as adaptive types. Classes of phyla. Natural classification. Evolving characters. Taxonomic rank intuition -- Prehistory. Progymnosperms. Pteridospermidae (pteridosperms). Cyeadidae (cycadophytes). Coniferidae (coniferids). Proangiospermidae (proangiosperms). Selected fossil links. Gymnosperm phylogeny. General tendencies and patterns -- Early History. The Cretaceous. Cretaceous angiosperms -- Environments. Angiosperm cradle plant communities. Centres of origin. Rise of angiosperms as a biocoenotic process. Reproductive biology. A general scheme of ecological evolution -- Phylogeny. Morphology. Character sharing. Character polarities. Structural homologies. Trend types. Proangiosperms as a morphological pool. Concurrent homologies. The gneto-bennettite line. Caytonialean to ranunculid trends. Other proangiosperm contributions.