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This is the only comprehensive account of all eight species in the genus Adansonia. It describes the historical background from the late Roman period to the present. It covers the extraordinary variety of economic uses of baobabs, famous trees, folk traditions and mythology, art associations, life cycle, natural history, cultivation, conservation, distribution and ecology, and phytogeography. There are also appendices on vernacular names, gazetteer, economics, nutrition and forest mensuration. This book fills a gap in the botanical literature. It deals with a genus that has fascinated and intrigued scientists and lay persons for centuries. It will appeal to scientists and academics as well as tropical horticulturalists, conservationists and general interest readers. It includes all the available scientific information about each of the eight species, and contains a good deal of original research on the history, ethnobotany and biology of the genus. There is even a chapter devoted to areas where further research is required.

Adansonia --- Baobab (Genus) --- Baobabs --- Malvaceae

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DEN Dendrology & Forestry --- dendrology --- Baobab --- Malvaceae --- Adansonia --- Adansonia digitata --- specimen trees --- Madagascar --- Africa --- Australia --- Caribbean --- coloured photographs

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Adansonia --- Introduction de plantes --- Plant introduction --- Paramètre génétique --- genetic parameters --- Composition chimique --- Chemical composition --- Graine --- Seeds --- Germination --- Pratique culturale --- Cultivation --- Mode de culture --- cultural methods --- Utilisation --- uses --- Environnement socioéconomique --- socioeconomic environment --- Environnement socioculturel --- sociocultural environment --- Bénin --- Benin --- Theses --- Benin.

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Modern humans, descendants of a founding population that separated from chimpanzees some five to eight million years ago, are today the only living representative of a branching group of African apes called hominins. Because of its extraordinary size and shape, the baobab (Adansonia digitata L.) has long been identified as the most striking tree of Africa’s mosaic savanna, the landscape generally regarded as the environment of hominin evolution. This book makes the case for identifying the baobab as the tree of life in the hunter-gatherer adaptation that was the economic foundation of hominin evolution. The argument is based on the significance of the baobab as a resource-rich environment for the Hadza of northeastern Tanzania, who continue to be successful hunter-gatherers of the African savanna.

Plant anatomy. --- Plant ecology. --- Plants—Development. --- Plant physiology. --- Evolution (Biology). --- Anthropology. --- Plant Anatomy and Morphology. --- Plant Ecology. --- Plant Development. --- Plant Physiology. --- Evolutionary Biology. --- Primitive societies --- Social sciences --- Human beings --- Animal evolution --- Animals --- Biological evolution --- Darwinism --- Evolutionary biology --- Evolutionary science --- Origin of species --- Biology --- Evolution --- Biological fitness --- Homoplasy --- Natural selection --- Phylogeny --- Botany --- Plants --- Physiology --- Floristic ecology --- Phytoecology --- Vegetation ecology --- Ecology --- Plant structure --- Structural botany --- Vegetable anatomy --- Anatomy --- Structure --- Adansonia digitata --- Ethnobotany --- Hatsa (African people)

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Like the bird whose death signaled dangerous conditions in a mine, the demise of animals that once flourished should give humans pause. How is our fate linked to the earth's creatures, and the cycle of flourishing and extinction? Which are the simple workings of nature's order, and which are omens of ecological disaster? Does human activity accelerate extinction? What really causes it? In an illuminating and elegantly written account of the widespread reduction of the world's wildlife, renowned paleontologist Niles Eldredge poses these questions and examines humankind's role in the larger life cycles of the earth, composing a provocative general theory of extinction.

Biodiversity. --- Ecology. --- Extinction (Biology) --- Adansonia. --- Aesthetics. --- Algae. --- American Museum of Natural History. --- American School of Classical Studies at Athens. --- Amherst College. --- Arthropod. --- Awareness. --- Bacteria. --- Basset Hound. --- Biodiversity. --- Biologist. --- Broad-billed roller. --- Brown University. --- Carnivore. --- Cenozoic. --- Comoro Islands. --- Cretaceous. --- Darwinism. --- East Africa. --- Ecological crisis. --- Ecology. --- Ecosystem. --- Endemism. --- Eocene. --- Evolution. --- Extinction event. --- Extinction. --- Flora. --- Forest floor. --- Fossil collecting. --- Future Evolution. --- Genetic diversity. --- Geologist. --- Geology. --- Giant coua. --- Global temperature. --- Guineafowl. --- Herbivore. --- Holocene extinction. --- Hominidae. --- Homo sapiens. --- Human evolution. --- Human eye. --- Ian Tattersall. --- Imagery. --- In Specie. --- Jellyfish. --- Jurassic. --- Lemur. --- Living systems. --- Longevity. --- Mammal. --- Mesite. --- Mesozoic. --- Miocene. --- Multicellular organism. --- Northern Hemisphere. --- Oligocene. --- Ordovician. --- Organism. --- Outcrop. --- Overexploitation. --- Paleocene. --- Paleontology. --- Paleozoic. --- Permian. --- Pheasant. --- Plant. --- Pleistocene. --- Quaternary extinction event. --- Quinine. --- Rainforest. --- Reason. --- Result. --- River mouth. --- Rock (geology). --- Rocky shore. --- Sediment. --- Sedimentary rock. --- Serengeti. --- Silurian. --- Speciation. --- State of the Environment. --- Stratum. --- Tanzania. --- Tenrec. --- Terrestrial animal. --- Trilobite. --- Tropical rainforest. --- Unicellular organism. --- University of London. --- University of Minnesota. --- University of Virginia. --- Vegetation. --- Vertebrate paleontology. --- Vertebrate. --- Wetland. --- Yale University. --- Year.