Life on a young planet : the first three billion years of evolution on Earth

Life on a young planet : the first three billion years of evolution on Earth / Andrew H. Knoll.

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Main Author: Knoll, Andrew H.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2003
Series:Princeton science library
Subjects:
Life > Origin.
Online Access:Table of contents
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Table of Contents:
  • In the beginning?
  • Tree of life
  • Life's signature in ancient rocks
  • Earliest glimmers of life
  • Emergence of life
  • Oxygen revolution
  • Cyanobacteria, life's microbial heroes
  • Origins of eukaryotic cells
  • Fossils of early eukaryotes
  • Animals take the stage
  • Cambrian redux
  • Dynamic Earth, permissive ecology
  • Paleontology ad astra.

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