TY  - BOOK
AU  - Knoll,Andrew H.
TI  - Life on a young planet: the first three billion years of evolution on Earth 
T2  - Princeton science library
SN  - 9780691165530
AV  - QH325 .K54 2015
U1  - 576.8/3 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Life
KW  - Origin
KW  - fast
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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