Evolution on Planet Earth Impact of the Physical Environment Vol 1 1st Edition by Lynn Rothschild, Adrian Lister 0125986556 9780125986557

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ISBN 10: 0125986556

ISBN 13: 9780125986557

Author: Lynn J. Rothschild, Adrian M. Lister

Driving evolution forward, the Earth’s physical environment has challenged the very survival of organisms and ecosystems throughout the ages. With a fresh new perspective, Evolution on Planet Earth shows how these physical realities and hurdles shaped the primary phases of life on the planet. The book’s thorough coverage also includes chapters on more proximate factors and paleoenvironmental events that influenced the diversity of life. A team of notable ecologists, evolutionary biologists, and paleontologists join forces to describe drifting continents, extinction events, and climate change — important topics that continue to shape Earth’s inhabitants to this very day. In a world where global change has become an international issue, this book provides a several billion-year evolutionary perspective on what the environment and environmental change means to life.

* Provides thorough background information on each topic while introducing cutting-edge research
* Features original material solicited from the leading minds in evolutionary biology and geology today
* Emphasizes the influence of massive geological forces – continental drift, volcanic activity, sea and tides

Evolution on Planet Earth Impact of the Physical Environment Vol 1 1st Table of contents:

Part 1: The Earth’s atmosphere and the building blocks of life
Chapter 1. The physical setting for early life
Chapter 2. What good is nitrogen: an evolutionary perspective
Chapter 3. The coupled evolution of life and atmospheric oxygen
Chapter 4. Chemistry of the early oceans: the environment of early life
Chapter 5. The role of carbon dioxide in plant evolution

Part 2: Radiation
Chapter 6. The sun: the impetus for life
Chapter 7. Could life travel across interplanetary space? Panspermia revisited

Part 3: Molecular evolution
Chapter 8. Genome evolution and the impact of the physical environment

Part 4: Gravity
Chapter 9. The impact of gravity on life
Chapter 10. Gravity, the atmosphere and the evolution of animal locomotion

Part 5: Temperature
Chapter 11. Evolution and low temperatures
Chapter 12. Temperature, tectonics, and evolution

Part 6: The dynamic Earth
Chapter 13. The interplay of physical and biotic factors in macroevolution
Chapter 14. The causes of Phanerozoic extinctions
Chapter 15. Drifting continents and life on Earth
Chapter 16. Land/sea relations and speciation in the marine and terrestrial realms

Part 7: Climate
Chapter 17. Tectonics, climatic change, and the evolution of mammalian ecosystems
Chapter 18. Ice ages, species distributions, and evolution
Chapter 19. Environmental variability and its impact on adaptive evolution, with special reference to
Chapter 20. Climatic change, and the beginnings of agriculture: the case of the Younger Dryas

Part 8: Implications for life elsewhere
Chapter 21. The physical constraints on extraterrestrial life

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