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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Traces a path from the dawn of the universe to speculations about our future on this planet. This title focuses on the physical and biological processes in evolution, which interact to favour more successful and eliminate less successful forms of life. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword by Simon Conway MorrisPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Time Travel2. The Extraterrestrial Pre-Hadean3. The Hadean Eon4. The Archean Eon5. The Proterozoic Eon6. Phanerozoic Marine Life7. Origin of Complex Terrestrial Ecosystems8. Toward the Coal Age9. Ascendancy of Life on Land10. Bridging the Eras11. The Natural History of Natural Selection12. An Age of Giants13. One Earth, Two Worlds14. The Modern Earth15. SynthesisEpilogue: The Way of LifeReferencesIndex
