Life in Deep Time - Couverture souple

Schopf, J. William

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1138385492 ISBN 13 : 9781138385498

Editeur : CRC Press, 2018

Synopsis

When Darwin wrote his Origin of Species, one of his main concerns was with the perceived shortness of the fossil record of life. Until the work of J. William Schopf and his colleagues, much of this history was thought to be unknowable. This book, through a memoire of Schopf’s personal recollections, documents astonishing discoveries revealing the first 85% of the history of life. These earliest periods of life on Earth emerge as a tale of individual and internationally collaborative exploration told by a scholar whose 60 years of research contributed to the recognition of the richness and diversity which forms the foundation of today’s biodiversity.

Key Features

• Documents, through personal narrative, a paradigm shift is the study of the earliest life
• Summarizes a fossil record largely unknown until relatively recently
• Addresses one of Darwin's most troubling concerns about his theory of natural selection
• Predicts future developments in the study of first life

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

J. William Schopf is Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for the Study of Evolution and the Origin of Life at the University of California Los Angeles. He is an elected member of the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Sciences. He is the author or co-author of hundreds of scholarly journal articles, as well as many authored and edited books. His books have won 3 national prizes.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CRC Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1138385492
• ISBN 13: 9781138385498
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 229
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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