Great review paper by Maria Gandolfo:
"the fossil record provides essential and irreplaceable insights into plant evolution by documenting extinct lineages, transitional morphologies, developmental stages, and past ecosystems that cannot be inferred from extant taxa alone."
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Understanding plant evolution requires integrating the vast, largely untapped evidence preserved in the fossil record with molecular and genomic data.β¦