Life on a Young Planet-The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth

Name: Life on a Young Planet-The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth
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ISBN: 9780691120294

ISBN-10: 0691120293

ISBN-13: 9780691120294

Edition: 2004

Authors: Andrew H. Knoll

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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 history of life from its origins on a young planet to the incredible Cambrian explosion, presenting a compelling new explanation for the emergence of biological novelty. The very latest discoveries in paleontology--many of them made by the author and his students--are integrated with emerging insights from molecular biology and earth system science to forge a broad understanding of how the…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 9/19/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Prologue



In the Beginning?



The Tree of Life



Life's Signature in Ancient Rocks



The Earliest Glimmers of Life



The Emergence of Life



The Oxygen Revolution



The Cyanobacteria, Life's Microbial Heroes



The Origins of Eukaryotic Cells



Fossils of Early Eukaryotes



Animals Take the Stage



Cambrian Redux



Dynamic Earth, Permissive Ecology



Paleontology ad Astra


Epilogue


Further Reading


Index