This book discusses the controversial and conflicting hypotheses on the origin of angiosperms, which was generally assumed to be restricted to the Cretaceous and later ages. Since publishing the first edition of "The Dawn of Angiosperms" in 2010, several important advances have been made in this field of science, namely 1) the discovery of new fossil angiosperms from the Jurassic; 2) European researchers discovering angiosperm-like pollen from the Triassic; and most importantly 3) the discovery of a perfect flower from the Jurassic. All of these findings are at odds with the currently widely accepted evolutionary theories, and thus call upon us to critically reassess botanical theory.
Accordingly, the new edition of this book not only includes more new fossil taxa, but also documents them in greater detail and corrects many commonly held misconceptions. In so doing, it makes related studies and teaching on the early history of angiosperms more realistic, concrete, andtangible, providing concrete fossil evidence as the basis for future research, and helping to distinguish the most accurate botanical hypotheses.
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Place of publication
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Illustrations
27 farbige Abbildungen, 138 s/w Abbildungen
XXVII, 407 p. 165 illus., 27 illus. in color.
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Height: 241 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
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ISBN-13
978-3-319-58324-2 (9783319583242)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-58325-9
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Xin Wang is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University. He got both of his Ph.D. and B.E degrees in Computer Science and Technology from Zhejiang University, China. He also holds a Ph.D. degree in Computing Science from Simon Fraser University, Canada. His research interests include multimedia intelligence, machine learning and its applications. He has published over 200 high-quality research papers in ICML, NeurIPS, IEEE TPAMI, IEEE TKDE, ACM KDD, WWW, ACM SIGIR, ACM Multimedia etc., winning three best paper awards including ACM Multimedia Asia. He is the recipient of ACM China Rising Star Award, IEEE TCMC Rising Star Award and DAMO Academy Young Fellow.
Xiaohan Lan obtained her M.S. degree from Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University. She received her B.E. degree from the Department of Computer Science and Technology of Beijing Normal University in 2020. Her main research interests include multimedia computation, vision and language understanding and deep learning.
Wenwu Zhu is currently a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Technology at Tsinghua University. He also serves as the Vice Dean of Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology. Prior to his current post, he was a Senior Researcher and Research Manager at Microsoft Research Asia. He was the Chief Scientist and Director at Intel Research China from 2004 to 2008. He worked at Bell Labs, New Jersey as Member of Technical Staff during 1996-1999. He received his Ph.D. degree from New York University in 1996. His research interests include graph machine learning, curriculum learning, data-driven multimedia, big data. He has published over 400 referred papers, and is inventor of over 100 patents. He received ten Best Paper Awards, including ACM Multimedia 2012 and IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology in 2001 and 2019. He serves as the EiC for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, the EiC for IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (2017-2019) and the Chair of the steering committee for IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (2020-2022). He serves as General Co-Chair for ACM Multimedia 2018 and ACM CIKM 2019. He is an AAAS Fellow, IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, SPIE Fellow, and a member of Academia Europaea.
Introduction.- Suggested angiosperm ancestors.- Angiosperms: characters and criteria.- Background for the plant fossils.- Flowers from the Early Cretaceous.- Flower-related fossils from the Jurassic.- Problematic fossils.- Making of the flower.
