Ferns
Lessons in Survival From Earth’s Most Adaptable Plants
$45.75
- Hardcover
192 pages
- Release Date
6 May 2025
Summary
A 400-million-year journey through the surprising history of Earth’s most ancient plants.
Ferns are the most remarkable of plants, both complex and beautiful. Among Earth’s most ancient plants, their story reveals much about our planet’s history. Ferns embarks on an exhilarating 400-million-year journey through the world of these astounding plants. It explores how ferns first evolved, how they continuously adapted to their environment and survived every mass …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781958417850 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1958417858 |
| Author: | Fay-Wei Li, Jacob S. Suissa |
| Publisher: | Hardie Grant US |
| Imprint: | Hardie Grant US |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 6 May 2025 |
| Weight: | 861g |
| Dimensions: | 24mm x 190mm x 246mm |
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Fay-Wei Li
Fay-Wei Li grew up in Taiwan and studied for his Ph.D. at Duke University, where he and his advisor, Kathleen Pryer named a new fern genus Gaga after Lady Gaga. In 2017, Fay-Wei joined Boyce Thompson Institute at Cornell University as an assistant professor. His fern research has featured in the New York Times, the Economist, and Rolling Stone magazine.
Jacob S. Suissa completed his Ph.D. in Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. As a classically trained botanist and evolutionary biologist, Jacob asks how plants build their bodies, how they function, and how they have evolved across geologic time, with a focus on ferns. Jacob runs the science communication video series, Let’s Botanize.
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