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Keywords: the early Paleozoic, plant evolution, animal evolution, plant, animal and fungal coevolution, biochemical evolution, lipid and terpenoid compounds, phenolic compounds, the Carboniferous period, plant and animal evolution, changes in defense and predators of Devonian plants, biochemical evolution, the Permian period, the Mesozoic, plant and animal evolution, evolution of defensive chemicals in plants