As a food source, flowering plants provide human beings and other members of the animal kingdom with the nourishment essential to our existence. Without flowering plants, the human race simply would not exist.
The emergence, some one hundred million years ago, during the early Cretaceous period, of what botanists call angiosperms – plants that produce seeds enclosed within a carpel, which protect and nourish them – therefore represents one of the great moments in the history of life on Earth.
In Flower Power, Steve Nicholls provides a magisterial and beautifully illustrated telling – scientifically rigorous but always accessible and entertaining – of the story of flowering plants, from their effects on the natural world following their evolution to their effects on human societies with the rise of agriculture and the rise of commercial horticulture over the last few hundred years.
Flower Power: How Flowering Plants Changed the World
By Steve Nicholls
A magisterial and beautifully illustrated telling of the evolution of flowering plants
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Imprint: Apollo l Publiction Date: July 2027 l Format: 234 x 156mm | Extent: 512
About the Author
Steve Nicholls is an award-winning television documentary producer and director based in Bristol. He holds a PhD in dragonflies from the University of Bristol and is a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society of London. He has spent thirty years making wildlife films, including ten with the BBC Natural History Unit, and his plant photographs have won several awards in the prestigious International Garden Photographer of the Year competition. Nicholls is the author of Paradise Found: Nature in America at the Time of Discovery and Flowers of the Field: A Secret History of Meadow, Moor and Woodland.
