Life on a young planet

the first three billion years of evolution on Earth

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Andrew H. Knoll: Life on a young planet (Paperback, 2005, Princeton University Press)

Paperback, 277 pages

English language

Published Oct. 19, 2005 by Princeton University Press.

ISBN:
978-0-691-12029-4
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I think I read an older edition, so I can't speak for whatever the current preface might say, but I found it a quite easy read and enjoyed it a fair bit. I had wanted a book that went into details I wasn't already familiar with, and this gave me that. In particular, the details of the oxygen levels and their impact on animal evolution was something I had been curious about. I also liked the discussion of microbe evolution, although I was already familiar with things like some organisms acquiring photosynthesis by swallowing other organisms with photosynthesis who had swallowed other organisms with photosynthesis like some sort of living Russian doll. In my opinion, people who are only interested in animals because they are like us are boring and unimaginative.

As noted by another reviewer, the fast developments in the field have made this slightly outdated. We now know …

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  • Life -- Origin.