Author : J. William Schopf
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0867202688
Major Events in the History of Life by J. William Schopf Pdf
Major Events in the History of Life, present six chapters that summarize our understanding of crucial events that shaped the development of the earth's environment and the course of biological evolution over some four billion years of geological time. The subjects are covered by acknowledged leaders in their fields span an enormous sweep of biologic history, from the formation of planet Earth and the origin of living systems to our earliest records of human activity. Several chapters present new data and new syntheses, or summarized results of new types of analysis, material not usually available in current college textbooks.