Life on a Young Planet : : The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth - Updated Edition / / Andrew H. Knoll.
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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