Moving from Siberia to Namibia to the Bahamas, Knoll shows how life and environment have evolved together through Earth's history. The very latest discoveries in paleontology-many of them made by the author and his students-are integrated with emerging insights from molecular biology and earth system science to forge a broad understanding of how the biological diversity that surrounds us came to be. Andrew Knoll explores the deep history of life from its origins on a young planet to the incredible Cambrian explosion, presenting a compelling new explanation for the emergence of biological novelty. But in the full history of life, ancient animals, even the trilobites, form only the half-billion-year tip of a nearly four-billion-year iceberg. Australopithecines, dinosaurs, trilobites-such fossils conjure up images of lost worlds filled with vanished organisms.
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