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Impact of the Physical Environment
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Edited By
Lynn Rothschild, NASA, Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA
Adrian Lister, University College, London, UK
Description
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.
Audience
Faculty, advanced undergradutates, graduate students, and researchers in all branches of biology, evolution, earth sciences, astrobiology, and cosmology.
Contents
The Physical Setting for Early Life
An Evolutionary Perspective of Nitrogen Fixation
The Coupled Evolution of Life and Atmospheric Oxygen
Chemistry of the Early Oceans
The Role of Carbon Dioxide in Plant Evolution
Solar Energy and Life
Could Life Travel across Interplanetary
Space?
Genome Evolution and the Impact of the Physical Environment
The Impact of Gravity on Life
Gravity, the Atmosphere and the Evolution
of Animal Locomotion
Evolution and Low Temperatures
Temperature, Tectonics, and Evolution
The Interplay of Physical and Biotic Factors
in Macroevolution
The Causes of Phanerozoic Extinctions
Drifting Continents and Life on Earth
Land-Sea Relations and Speciation in the
Marine and Terrestrial Realms
Tectonics, Climatic Change, and the Evolution of Mammalian Ecosystems
Ice Ages, Species Distributions,
and Evolution
Environmental Variability and Its Impace on Adaptive Evolution, with Special Reference to Human Origins
The Younger Dryas,
Climatic Change, and the Beginnings of Agriculture
The Physical Constraints on Extraterrestrial Life
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Hardbound, 456 pages, publication date: JUN-2003
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-598655-7
ISBN-10: 0-12-598655-6
Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS
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