Dale A. Russell

Islands in the Cosmos: The Evolution of Life on Land

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Produktbeschreibung

Dale A. Russell is senior curator of paleontology at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and author of A Vanished World: The Dinosaurs of Western Canada and An Odyssey in Time: The Dinosaurs of North America.

Produktdetails

• Life of the Past
• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 453
• Erscheinungstermin: Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 166mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 1356g
• ISBN-13: 9780253352736
• ISBN-10: 0253352738
• Artikelnr.: 25683843

Autorenporträt

Dale A. Russell is senior curator of paleontology at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and author of A Vanished World: The Dinosaurs of Western Canada and An Odyssey in Time: The Dinosaurs of North America.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Simon Conway Morris
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Time Travel
2. The Extraterrestrial Pre-Hadean
3. The Hadean Eon
4. The Archean Eon
5. The Proterozoic Eon
6. Phanerozoic Marine Life
7. Origin of Complex Terrestrial Ecosystems
8. Toward the Coal Age
9. Ascendancy of Life on Land
10. Bridging the Eras
11. The Natural History of Natural Selection
12. An Age of Giants
13. One Earth, Two Worlds
14. The Modern Earth
15. Synthesis
Epilogue: The Way of Life
References
Index