More than 300 million years ago, when dinosaurs walked the earth, gymnosperms evolved as the first seed-bearing plants and transformed life on the planet. 1 Today, people rely heavily on seeds for ...

Haldre Rogers’s entry into ecology came via the sort of man-made calamity that scientists euphemistically call an “accidental experiment.” She’d taken a job in 2002 on the Pacific island of Guam and ...