Since the evolution of the first seeded plants ~370 million years ago, the largest change in seed size was found to be at the divergence of gymnosperms...

within a seed develops from the zygote and grows within the mother plant to a certain size before growth is halted. The formation of the seed is the defining...

(2008). "Evolution of Seed Size and Biotic Seed Dispersal in Angiosperms: Paleoecological and Neoecological Evidence". International Journal of Plant Sciences...

early evolution of seeds, the lineage of the seed ferns may be traced from the simple trimerophytes through homosporous Aneurophytes. The seed plants...

JSTOR 1367024. Hegde, S G; R Uma Shaanker & KN Ganeshaiah (1991). "Evolution of seed size in the bird-dispersed tree Santalum album L.: a trade off between...

owing to their seed size being large enough to be worth harvesting; in other pines, the seeds are also edible but are too small to be of notable value...

plants, seed dispersal is the movement, spread or transport of seeds away from the parent plant. Plants have limited mobility and rely upon a variety of dispersal...

between sexual size dimorphism and habitat use in Greater Antillean Anolis lizards". Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. 54 (1): 259–72...

such as colour and size. These scientists began the theory and ideas behind seed dispersal syndromes that are crucial to the evolution of reproduction in...

height of the first capsule.[citation needed] Sesame seeds are small. Their sizes vary with the thousands of varieties known. Typically, the seeds are about...

The size of the brain is a frequent topic of study within the fields of anatomy, biological anthropology, animal science and evolution. Measuring brain...

influenced the evolution of various sex differences. It is unclear whether anisogamy first led to the evolution of hermaphroditism or the evolution of gonochorism...

retained-seed priming drive the evolution of serotiny in drylands? An assessment using the cactus Mammillaria hernandezii". American Journal of Botany....

a lack of competition over large seeds with the large ground finch. This is an example of character displacement. In Evolution: Making Sense of Life, the...

(insect pollination). Its seed is the castor bean, which despite the term is not a bean (as it is not the seed of a member of the family Fabaceae). Castor...

Salviniales and seed plants. Heterospory evolved due to natural selection that favoured an increase in propagule size compared with the smaller spores of homosporous...

generally interpreted to be modified sepals. The fruit of grasses is a caryopsis, in which the seed coat is fused to the fruit wall.: 16  A tiller is a leafy...

years ago (mya), although the exact origin and timing of the evolution of dinosaurs is a subject of active research. They became the dominant terrestrial...

selection pressures led to the evolution and maintenance of sexual reproduction? (more unsolved problems in biology) Evolution of sexual reproduction describes...

and robustness of the evidence. Plant evolution is an aspect of the study of biological evolution, predominantly involving evolution of plants suited to...

the small size of the gametophyte tissue—in some situations single celled—differentiating with the human eye or even a microscope between seed plant gametophyte...

Ginkgo is a genus of non-flowering seed plants, assigned to the gymnosperms. The scientific name is also used as the English common name. The order to...

even days. There has also been studies on sexual selection and evolution of cognition in seed beetles. It shows that "cognitive ability did show sex-specificity:...

evolution of seed dispersal by ants, and phylogeny and biogeography in flowering plants: A global survey". Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and...

means of spores. Because pteridophytes produce neither flowers nor seeds, they are sometimes referred to as "cryptogams", meaning that their means of reproduction...

Divergent evolution or divergent selection is the accumulation of differences between closely related populations within a species, sometimes leading...

or nucellus of the parent sporophyte. The evolution of heterospory and endospory were among the earliest steps in the evolution of seeds of the kind produced...

variable cone size and function throughout the family. Variation in cone size in the family has likely resulted from the variation of seed dispersal mechanisms...

of its other life-history traits are the opposite of those exhibited by modern plants that thrive in disturbed settings (slow growth, large seed size...

Eritrea and Malawi, niger seeds are also grown in India. Niger seeds resemble sunflower seeds in shape, but are smaller in size and black. It bears a fairly...