Knoll, Andrew H.
Life on a young planet : the first three billion years of evolution on Earth / Andrew H. Knoll ; with a new preface by the author. - New Princeton science library paperback edition. - xv, 277 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm. - Princeton science library . - Princeton science library. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-267) and index.
Acknowledgments -- Preface to the new paperback edition -- Prologue -- Ch. 1. In the beginning? -- Ch. 2. The tree of life -- Ch. 3. Life's signature in ancient rocks -- Ch. 4. The earliest glimmers of life -- Ch. 5. The emergence of life -- Ch. 6. The oxygen revolution -- Ch. 7. The cyanobacteria, life's microbial heroes -- Ch. 8. The origins of eukaryotic cells -- Ch. 9. Fossils of early eukaryotes -- Ch. 10. Animals take the stage -- Ch. 11. Cambrian redux -- Ch. 12. Dynamic earth, permissive ecology -- Ch. 13. Paleontology ad astra -- Epilogue -- Further reading -- Index.
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 are integrated with emerging insights from molecular biology and earth system science to forge a broad understanding of how the biological diversity that surrounds us came to be. In a new preface, Knoll describes how the field has broadened and deepened in the decade since the book's original publication.
Phi Beta Kappa Book Award in Science, 2003
9780691165530 069116553X
2014955273
GBB508496 bnb
017018910 Uk
Life--Origin.
Life.
Life--Origin.
Life.
Life--Origin.
QH325 / .K54 2015
576.8/3
Life on a young planet : the first three billion years of evolution on Earth / Andrew H. Knoll ; with a new preface by the author. - New Princeton science library paperback edition. - xv, 277 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm. - Princeton science library . - Princeton science library. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-267) and index.
Acknowledgments -- Preface to the new paperback edition -- Prologue -- Ch. 1. In the beginning? -- Ch. 2. The tree of life -- Ch. 3. Life's signature in ancient rocks -- Ch. 4. The earliest glimmers of life -- Ch. 5. The emergence of life -- Ch. 6. The oxygen revolution -- Ch. 7. The cyanobacteria, life's microbial heroes -- Ch. 8. The origins of eukaryotic cells -- Ch. 9. Fossils of early eukaryotes -- Ch. 10. Animals take the stage -- Ch. 11. Cambrian redux -- Ch. 12. Dynamic earth, permissive ecology -- Ch. 13. Paleontology ad astra -- Epilogue -- Further reading -- Index.
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 are integrated with emerging insights from molecular biology and earth system science to forge a broad understanding of how the biological diversity that surrounds us came to be. In a new preface, Knoll describes how the field has broadened and deepened in the decade since the book's original publication.
Phi Beta Kappa Book Award in Science, 2003
9780691165530 069116553X
2014955273
GBB508496 bnb
017018910 Uk
Life--Origin.
Life.
Life--Origin.
Life.
Life--Origin.
QH325 / .K54 2015
576.8/3