Cover -- Front Matter -- Preface -- Contents -- Part I EARLY EVOLUTION AND THE ORIGIN OF CELLS -- 1 G. Ledyard Stebbins (1906-2000) - An Appreciation -- 2 Solution to Darwin's Dilemma: Discovery of the Missing Precambrian Record of Life -- 3 The Chimeric Eukaryote: Origin of the Nucleus from the Karyomastigont in Amitochondriate Protists -- 4 Dynamic Evolution of Plant Mitochondrial Genomes: Mobile Genes and Introns and Highly Variable Mutation Rates -- Part II VIRAL AND BACTERIAL MODELS -- 5 The Evolution of RNA Viruses: A Population Genetics View -- 6 Effects of Passage History and Sampling Bias on Phylogenetic Reconstruction of Human Influenza A Evolution -- 7 Bacteria are Different: Observations, Interpretations, Speculations, and Opinions About the Mechanisms of Adaptive Evolution in Prokaryotes -- Part III PROTOCTIST MODELS -- 8 Evolution of RNA Editing in Trypanosome Mitochondria -- 9 Population Structure and Recent Evolution of Plasmodium falciparum -- Part IV POPULATION VARIATION -- 10 Transposons and Genome Evolution in Plants -- 11 Maize as a Model for the Evolution of Plant Nuclear Genomes -- 12 Flower Color Variation: A Model for the Experimental Study of Evolution -- 13 Gene Genealogies and Population Variation in Plants -- Part V TRENDS AND PATTERNS IN PLANT EVOLUTION -- 14 Toward a New Synthesis: Major Evolutionary Trends in the Angiosperm Fossil Record -- 15 Reproductive Systems and Evolution in Vascular Plants -- 16 Hybridization as a Stimulus for the Evolution of Invasiveness in Plants? -- 17 The Role of Genetic and Genomic Attributes in the Success of Polyploids -- Index.