HISTORY OF LIFE

1. The Origin of Life
   
2. Earth's Earliest Life
   
3. Sex and Nuclei: Eukaryotes
   
4. The Evolution of Animals
   
5. Life in a Changing World
   
6. Extinction
   
7. The Early Vertebrates
   
8. Leaving the Water
   
9. Amphibians and Reptiles
   
10. Reptiles and Thermoregulation
    
11. Triassic Takeover
    
12. Dinosaurs
    
13. Warm-Blooded Dinosaurs?
    
14. The Evolution of Flight
    
15. The Origin of Mammals
    
16. Marine Reptiles
    
17. Why Flowers are Beautiful
    
18. The End of the Dinosaurs
    
19. Cenozoic Mammals
    
20. Geography and Evolution
    
21. Primates
    
22. Evolving Toward Humans
    
23. The Ice Age
    
24. Humans and the Ice Age
    

Why Flowers are Beautiful

Introduction

• The Fossil Record and Diversification of Flowering Plants

Mesozoic Plants and Pollination

• Excellent Introduction to Pollination Adaptations
• Plants and Animals: Partners in Pollination
• Lecture Notes on Flowering Plants-Pollinators Coevolution

Magnolias and Moths, Cycads and Beetles

• By the Early Cretaceous There Were Representatives of Winteraceae or Here
• They are Pollinated by Moths
• Images of the Relatives of Winteraceae, the Magnolias
• Another Ancient Twosome: The Cycad Zamia and its Beetle Pollinator
• Images of Cycads
• Visit the Cycad Society Website or Australia's (Palm and) Cycad Society
• Another Example of Coevolution: The Incredible Fig/Fig Wasp Scenario
• A Passion for Butterflies
• Lecture Notes on Coevolution
• Review of Coevolution
• A Longer Review of Coevolution

Mesozoic Plants and Seed Dispersal

• Images of Seed Dispersal

Angiosperms and Mesozoic Ecology

• Recent Discovery of Oldest Known Flowering Plant Fossil in China (145 Ma) or Here
• Angiosperm Life Cycle and Families
• Comparison of Four Classification Systems for Flowering Plants
• Online Guide to Insect Pollination of Cultivated Plants
• Bee Diversity in Arizona Desert Habitats
• Overview of Bee Diversity
• Bee Flies are not Bees
• How a Bee Sees a Flower
• Bee Dances and Locating Flowers
• Buzz Pollination
• A Huge Phylogeny of Angiosperms Based on DNA Sequences: Treezilla
• Timothy L. Killeen's Good Reviews of Speciation, Natural Selection, Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change, and Rapid Evolution in Plants and Animals