A new history of life : the radical new discoveries about the origins and evolution of life on earth /
The history of life on Earth is, in some form or another, known to us all, or so we think. This book offers a provocative new account, based on the latest scientific research, of how modern lifeforms evolved.
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New York :
Bloomsbury Press,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Telling time
- Becoming an earthlike planet : 4.6-4.5 GA
- Life, death, and the newly discovered place in between
- Forming life : 4.2(?)-3.5 GA
- From origin to oxygenation : 3.5-2.0 GA
- The long road to animals : 2.0-1.0 GA
- The Cryogenian and the evolution of animals : 850-635 MA
- The Cambrian explosion : 600-500 MA
- The Ordovician-Devonian expansion of animals : 500-360 MA
- Tiktaalik and the invasion of the land : 475-300 MA
- The age of arthropods : 350-300 MA
- The great dying : anoxia and global stagnation : 252-250 MA
- The Triassic explosion : 252-200 MA
- Dinosaur hegemony in a low-oxygen world : 230-180 MA
- The greenhouse oceans : 200-65 MA
- Death of the dinosaurs : 65 MA
- The long-delayed third age of mammals : 65-60 MA
- The age of birds : 50-2.5 MA
- Humanity and the tenth extinction : 2.5 MA to present
- The knowable futures of Earth life.