Evolution on planet earth the impact of the physical environment
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. T...
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Amsterdam
Academic Press
2003, ©2003
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Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- 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
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