Briggs D. & Walters S.M., 1997. –Plant variation and evolution. Cambridge University Press.
Teaching Methods
Total hours of the course (including the time spent in attending lectures, seminars, private study, examinations, etc...): 150
Course program
Individual. Individual variability. Genotype and pheenotype. Population. Demes.
Reproductive strategies.
Origin of the species. Speciation.
Hybridization. Introgression.
Polyploidization. Auto- and allopolyploidization.
Paleobotany: a tool for studying the evolution of plants.
Methodologies for reconstructing the vegetation history.
