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Revolutions that made the Earth /
The Earth that sustains us today was born out of a few remarkable revolutions, started by biological innovations and marked by global environmental consequences. Humanity's planet-reshaping activities may be the latest example. By understanding the past revolutions, we can help steer current gl...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. I Introduction
- ch. 1 Origins
- ch. 2 Carbon and oxygen
- ch. 3 Russian dolls
- ch. 4 The revolutions
- pt. II Theory
- ch. 5 The anthropic Earth
- ch. 6 The critical steps
- ch. 7 Playing Gaia
- pt. III The oxygen revolution
- ch. 8 Photosynthesis
- ch. 9 The trial of the oxygen poisoners
- ch. 10 The Great Oxidation
- pt. IV The complexity revolution
- ch. 11 Life gets an upgrade
- ch. 12 When did eukaryotes evolve?
- ch. 13 The not-so-boring billion
- ch. 14 The Neoproterozoic
- pt. V Interlude
- ch. 15 Animals and oxygen
- ch. 16 The grand recycling coalition
- ch. 17 Rolls of the dice
- pt. VI A new revolution?
- ch. 18 Climate wobbles
- ch. 19 The origins of us
- ch. 20 Review
- ch. 21 Where next?