Revolutions that Made the Earth

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Revolutions that Made the Earth

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 438 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780199587049
  • DDC分類 550

基本説明

The revolutions have certain features in common, such as an increase in complexity, energy utilization, and information processing by life. This book describes these revolutions, showing the fundamental interdependence of the evolution of life and its non-living environment.

Full Description

The Earth that sustains us today was born out of a few remarkable, near-catastrophic revolutions, started by biological innovations and marked by global environmental consequences. The revolutions have certain features in common, such as an increase in complexity, energy utilization, and information processing by life. This book describes these revolutions, showing the fundamental interdependence of the evolution of life and its non-living environment. We would not exist unless these upheavals had led eventually to 'successful' outcomes - meaning that after each one, at length, a new stable world emerged.

The current planet-reshaping activities of our species may be the start of another great Earth system revolution, but there is no guarantee that this one will be successful. The book explains what a successful transition through it might look like, if we are wise enough to steer such a course.

This book places humanity in context as part of the Earth system, using a new scientific synthesis to illustrate our debt to the deep past and our potential for the future.

Contents

Preface ; PART I - INTRODUCTION ; 1. Origins ; 2. Carbon and oxygen ; 3. Russion dolls ; 4. The revolutions ; PART II - THEORY ; 5. The anthropic Earth ; 6. The critical steps ; 7. Playing Gaia ; PART III - THE OYGEN REVOLUTION ; 8. Photosynthesis ; 9. The trial of the oxygen poisoners ; 10. The great oxidation ; PART IV - THE COMPLEXITY REVOLUTION ; 11. Life gets an upgrade ; 12. When did eukaryotes evolve? ; 13. The not-so-boring billion ; 14. The Neoproterozoic ; PART V - INTERLUDE ; 15. Animals and oxygen ; 16. The grand recycling coalition ; 17. Rolls of the dice ; PART VI - A NEW REVOLUTION? ; 18. Climate wobbles ; 19. The origins of us ; 20. Review ; 21. Where next?