Paul G. Falkowski

Broschiertes Buch

Life's Engines

How Microbes Made Earth Habitable

Beschreibung

For almost four billion years, microbes had the primordial oceans all to themselves. The stewards of Earth, these organisms transformed the chemistry of our planet to make it habitable for plants, animals, and us. Life's Engines takes readers deep into the microscopic world to explore how these marvelous creatures made life on Earth possible--and h

Autor

Paul G. Falkowski holds the Bennett L. Smith Chair in Business and Natural Resources at Rutgers University, where he studies how microbes have shaped the history of Earth.

Produktdetails

• Princeton Science Library
• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 138mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 220g
• ISBN-13: 9780691247687
• ISBN-10: 0691247684
• Artikelnr.: 66229889

Rezensionen

"[Lifes Engines] is full of surprises . . . [I]mmensely rewarding."--Tim Flannery, New York Review of Books