This article, based on a paper presented at a RAS Presidium meeting, considers modern ideas on the origin and the main milestones in the evolution of higher plants. The history of their rise, water and air migrations, and participation in pedogenic processes is reconstructed proceeding from the structure of transport communications that were formed in the course of algal-mycobacterial symbiogenesis as buffer zones of exchange between the participants. Proceeding from further transformations of transport networks, regularities of the climatic adaptogenesis of higher plant forms in the Cenozoic are discussed.
Gamalei, YV
The origin and evolution of higher plants
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