In this lively and entertaining book, Donald R. Prothero explores the astonishing connections between climate and life through the ages, telling the remarkable stories of the scientists who made crucial discoveries.
In this lively and entertaining book, Donald R. Prothero explores the astonishing connections between climate and life through the ages, telling the remarkable stories of the scientists who made crucial discoveries.
Donald R. Prothero is a paleontology and geology researcher, teacher, and author. He is adjunct professor of geological sciences at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, and research associate in vertebrate paleontology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. His Columbia University Press books include The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks: Tales of Important Geological Puzzles and the People Who Solved Them (2018), The Story of the Dinosaurs in 25 Discoveries: Amazing Fossils and the People Who Found Them (2019), and The Story of Evolution in 25 Discoveries: The Evidence and the People Who Found It (2020).
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Preface Acknowledgments 1. Rare Earth 2. In the Beginning 3. Moonstruck 4. Faint Young Sun 5. The Oceans Form 6. GASP: Oxygen in the Atmosphere 7. Planet of the Scum 8. Snowball Earth 9. Plankton Power 10. Greenhouse of the Trilobites 11. Mass Extinctions: The Ordovician Event 12. The Devonian Crises 13. The First Forests 14. The Pangean Icehouse 15. The "Great Dying" 16. From Icehouse to Greenhouse: The Triassic and Jurassic 17. Greenhouse of the Dinosaurs 18. The Death of the Dinosaurs: The End-Cretaceous Extinctions 19. Return of the Greenhouse: The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum 20. From Greenhouse to Icehouse: The Eocene-Oligocene Transition 21. American Serengeti 22. Ice Planet: The Pleistocene Ice Ages 23. The Death of the Megamammals 24. The Holocene: Climate and Human Civilization 25. The Future Greenhouse Planet Index
Preface Acknowledgments 1. Rare Earth 2. In the Beginning 3. Moonstruck 4. Faint Young Sun 5. The Oceans Form 6. GASP: Oxygen in the Atmosphere 7. Planet of the Scum 8. Snowball Earth 9. Plankton Power 10. Greenhouse of the Trilobites 11. Mass Extinctions: The Ordovician Event 12. The Devonian Crises 13. The First Forests 14. The Pangean Icehouse 15. The "Great Dying" 16. From Icehouse to Greenhouse: The Triassic and Jurassic 17. Greenhouse of the Dinosaurs 18. The Death of the Dinosaurs: The End-Cretaceous Extinctions 19. Return of the Greenhouse: The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum 20. From Greenhouse to Icehouse: The Eocene-Oligocene Transition 21. American Serengeti 22. Ice Planet: The Pleistocene Ice Ages 23. The Death of the Megamammals 24. The Holocene: Climate and Human Civilization 25. The Future Greenhouse Planet Index
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