Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth - Updated EditionPrinceton University Press, 2015 M03 22 - 296 páginas Australopithecines, dinosaurs, trilobites--such fossils conjure up images of lost worlds filled with vanished organisms. But in the full history of life, ancient animals, even the trilobites, form only the half-billion-year tip of a nearly four-billion-year iceberg. Andrew Knoll explores the deep history of life from its origins on a young planet to the incredible Cambrian explosion, presenting a compelling new explanation for the emergence of biological novelty. |
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Chapter 3 Lifes Signature in Ancient Rocks | 32 |
Chapter 4 The Earliest Glimmers of Life | 50 |
Chapter 5 The Emergence of Life | 72 |
Chapter 6 The Oxygen Revolution | 89 |
Chapter 7 The Cyanobacteria Lifes Microbial Heroes | 108 |
Plate 6
| 118 |
Plate 7
| 118 |
Plate 8
| 118 |
Chapter 8 The Origins of Eukaryotic Cells | 122 |
Chapter 9 Fossils of Early Eukaryotes | 139 |
Chapter 10 Animals Take the Stage | 161 |
Chapter 11 Cambrian Redux | 179 |
Chapter 12 Dynamic Earth Permissive Ecology | 206 |
Plate 1
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Plate 2
| 118 |
Plate 3
| 118 |
Plate 4
| 118 |
Plate 5
| 118 |
Chapter 13 Paleontology ad Astra | 225 |
Epilogue | 243 |
Further Reading | 247 |
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Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth Andrew H. Knoll Vista previa limitada - 2003 |
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