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on a Young Planet by Andrew Knoll: What a brilliant book, Everything you could possibly want to know about the history of the planet and life on it, beautifully, clearly and succinctly explained, No padding. Great writing. I will probably reread this book just to I was fascinated, I am fairly familiar with the Cambrian fauna and probably know than most about Pre Cambrian biology, But this book was just over the top, Never appreciated how much paleontology could be done on bacteria, Incredible. If you have any interest in The book covers a lot of the nothing happened period that we have no fossils for and life in any case was primitive, such as cyanobacteria.
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read clearly and have good illustrations, Occasionally he gets bogged down with some idea laid This book covers the period from the earlies evidence of life to the Cambrian 'explosion', Along the way you will be amazed at the number of contentious issues that have been raised on every concievable aspect of these developments, While the author is very good at I found this book to be imminently unreadable, and gave up the pretense I might get something out of this by page.
Ward's "Rare Earth" and Hazen's "The Story of Earth" are for accessible books on this same subject matter, even if each of those books Andrew H.
Knoll's Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth is one of those rare books that can change your, or at any rate, my, picture of reality.
Dinosaurs and mastodons don't wander through these pages, unless you count a This is a detailed, careful examination of how life evolved on planet Earth from procaryotic bacteria and archaea to the Cambrian animals, from an author who doesn't lack charisma or humor I'm fascinated with his "Pax cyanobacteriana" parallel, and narrates some personal I noticed some reviews about the Life on a Young Planet's readability.
If you are a habitual reader of something like Scientific American magazine, you should be able to handle this with no problem, I would not recommend it to my friends who don't have at least a college freshman level,shipping.