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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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Edition: | Updated edition with a New preface by the author |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Science Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 p.) :; 8 color illus. 25 halftones. 47 line illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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