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Life on a Young Planet : The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth - Updated Edition /
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 hi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
[2015]
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| Edición: | Updated edition with a New preface by the author |
| Colección: | Princeton Science Library ;
87 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface to the New Paperback Edition
- Prologue
- Chapter 1. In the Beginning?
- Chapter 2. The Tree of Life
- Chapter 3. Life's Signature in Ancient Rocks
- Chapter 4. The Earliest Glimmers of Life
- Chapter 5. The Emergence of Life
- Chapter 6. The Oxygen Revolution
- Chapter 7. The Cyanobacteria, Life's Microbial Heroes
- Chapter 8. The Origins of Eukaryotic Cells
- Chapter 9. Fossils of Early Eukaryotes
- Chapter 10. Animals Take the Stage
- Chapter 11. Cambrian Redux
- Chapter 12. Dynamic Earth, Permissive Ecology
- Chapter 13. Paleontology ad Astra
- Epilogue
- Further Reading
- Index