David Beerling

This book looks at the story of plants largely through the discipline of Evolutionary Development ("evo-devo") and genetics, as opposed to the classic lenses of paleontology and morphology. This opens up entirely new (to me) narrative lines about plants. I listed to the audiobook version. But I would recommend reading the print version, instead. The information content is very dense, with lots of acronyms and names of particular genes. That made the details occasionally hard for me to follow.

Nicely written book that explores the changing physiology of plants and how this affects the climate in the past and possibly the future. I found this to be an extremely interesting book and learned a whole lot of new things which is the whole point to reading science books.

NOTE: Due to the large number of diagrams, it is probably better to read a print version of this book rather than an epub/mobi version since the diagrams are rather small on an e-reader.