"Servo"  wrote in message
news:cppsj3$2qb7$1{at}darwin.ediacara.org...
> Hi,
> I have a question.  Can anyone explain the lack of evolution in
> plantlife?

What "lack of evolution in plantlife"?  Plants did and do evolve just
as do everything else living. There have been lots of scientific
studies of evolution in plants.

>Most of the plants alive today remain unchanged from those
> found in the fossil record.

Not true, or at least not any truer for plants than for animals. The
plant fossil record documents that there have been major biotic
changes over the history of plant life. Various groups of modern
plants may indeed be basically similar to their early fossil relatives,
but this is also true for many groups of animals, and in no case are
the modern species necessarily completely "unchanged".

So-called "living fossils", whether plants or animals, may often
simply refer to modern groups that have not changed so conspicuously
that they have become unrecognizable as members of the same group as
their close fossil relatives.  This doesn't mean that they're
unchanged in all ways, or that they "lack evolution".

cheers
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