Life on a Young Planet
Life on a Young Planet Australopithecines, dinosaurs, trilobites--such fossils conjure up images of lost worlds filled with vanished organisms. Andrew Knoll explores the deep history of life from its…
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Life on a Young Planet
Australopithecines, dinosaurs, trilobites--such fossils conjure up images of lost worlds filled with vanished organisms. 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 biological diversity that surrounds us came to be. 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.
Innovations in Moving from Siberia to Namibia to the Bahamas, Knoll shows how life and environment have evolved together through Earth's history.