Cradle of Life : : The Discovery of Earth's Earliest Fossils / / J. William Schopf.
One of the greatest mysteries in reconstructing the history of life on Earth has been the apparent absence of fossils dating back more than 550 million years. We have long known that fossils of sophisticated marine life-forms existed at the dawn of the Cambrian Period, but until recently scientists...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022] ©1999 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (384 p.) :; 8 color plates 80 halftones 68 line illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Prologue
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Darwin's Dilemma
- Chapter 2. Birth of a New Field of Science
- Chapter 3. The Oldest Fossils and What They Mean
- Chapter 4. How Did Life Begin?
- Chapter 5. Metabolic Memories of the Earliest Cells
- 1Chapter 6. So Far, So Fast, So Early?
- Chapter 7. Stromatolites: Earth's First High-Rise Condos
- Chapter 8. Cyanobacteria: Earth's Oldest "Living Fossils"
- Chapter 9. Cells Like Ours Arise at Last
- Chapter 10. Solution to Darwin's Dilemma
- EPILOGUE EXTRAORDINARY CLAIMS! EXTRAORDINARY EVIDENCE?
- Chapter 11. Fossils, Foibles, and Frauds
- Chapter 12. The Hunt for Life on Mars
- Glossary
- Further Reading
- Index of Geologic Units and Genera and Species
- Subject Index