Life on a Young Planet : the First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Knoll, Andrew H. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2015]
Colección:Princeton science library.
Temas:
Life > Origin.
Vie > Origines.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Biology.
Life > Origin
Acceso en línea: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.

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