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Ward, Peter D. (Peter Douglas), 1949- author.

A new history of life : the radical new discoveries about the origins and evolution of life on earth / Peter Ward and Joe Kirschvink.

New York, NY : Bloomsbury Press, 2015.

391 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

"The history of life on Earth is, in some form or another, known to us all-- or so we think. [This book] offers a provocative new account, based on the latest scientific research, of how modern lifeforms evolved"--Amazon.com.

Evolution (Biology)

Life -- Origin.

Kirschvink, Joseph L., author.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-381) and index.

Telling time -- Becoming an earthlike planet : 4.6-4.5 GA -- Life, death, and the newly discovered place in between -- Forming life : 4.2(?)-3.5 GA -- From origin to oxygenation : 3.5-2.0 GA -- The long road to animals : 2.0-1.0 GA -- The Cryogenian and the evolution of animals : 850-635 MA -- The Cambrian explosion : 600-500 MA -- The Ordovician-Devonian expansion of animals : 500-360 MA -- tiktaalik and the invasion of the land : 475-300 MA -- The age of arthropods : 350-300 MA -- The great dying : anoxia and global stagnation : 252-250 MA -- The Triassic explosion : 252-200 MA -- Dinosaur hegemony in a low-oxygen world : 230-180 MA -- The greenhouse oceans : 200-65 MA -- Death of the dinosaurs : 65 MA -- The long-delayed third age of mammals : 65-60 MA -- The age of birds : 50-2.5 MA -- Humanity and the tenth extinction : 2.5 MA to present -- The knowable futures of Earth life.

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