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Land of plants in motion Japanese botany and the world

"Land of Plants in Motion is the first in any language to examine two companion stories: (1) the rise of an East Asian floristic zone in deep geological time, how the ancestors of many Japanese plants spread to eastern North America by 5 million years ago, and how the Japanese islands evolved a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Havens, Thomas R. H. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu University of Hawaiʻi Press [2020]
Colección:Perspectives on the global past.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. East Asia's Plants in Geological Time
  • 2. Plants in Early Modern Japan
  • 3. Seeking Japanese Plants in Europe and North America
  • 4. Foundations of Plant Biology in Modern Japan
  • 5. Plant Biology in Japan's Age of Empire
  • 6. Plant Biologists in an Era of Specialization
  • Notes
  • Sources Cited
  • Index
  • About the Author