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Author | : Charles Cockell |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2008-02-28 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780521493918 |
This concise textbook combines Earth and biological sciences to explore the co-evolution of the Earth and life over geological time.
Author | : Bruce Clarke |
Publisher | : Fordham University Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2015-07-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0823265277 |
Exploring the broad implications of evolutionary theorist Lynn Margulis’s work, this collection brings together specialists across a range of disciplines, from paleontology, molecular biology, evolutionary theory, and geobiology to developmental systems theory, archaeology, history of science, cultural science studies, and literature and science. Addressing the multiple themes that animated Margulis’s science, the essays within take up, variously, astrobiology and the origin of life, ecology and symbiosis from the microbial to the planetary scale, the coupled interactions of earthly environments and evolving life in Gaia theory and earth system science, and the connections of these newer scientific ideas to cultural and creative productions. Dorion Sagan acquaints the reader with salient issues in Lynn Margulis’s scientific work, the controversies they raised, and the vocabulary necessary to follow the arguments. Sankar Chatterjee synthesizes several strands of current theory for the origin of life on earth. James Strick tells the intertwined origin stories of James Lovelock’s Gaia hypothesis and Margulis’s serial endosymbiosis theory. Jan Sapp explores the distinct phylogenetic visions of Margulis and Carl Woese. Susan Squier examines the epigenetics of embryologist and developmental biologist C. H. Waddington. Bruce Clarke studies the convergence of ecosystem ecology, systems theory, and science fiction between the 1960s and the 1980s. James Shapiro discusses the genome evolution that results not from random changes but rather from active cell processes. Susan Oyama shows how the concept of development balances an over-emphasis on genetic coding and other deterministic schemas. Christopher Witmore studies the ways in which a concentrated animal feeding operation, or CAFO, mixes up natural resources, animal lives, and human appetites. And Peter Westbroek brings the insights of earth system science toward a new worldview essential for a proper response to global change.
Author | : Will Steffen |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2005-12-29 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3540266070 |
Global Change and the Earth System describes what is known about the Earth system and the impact of changes caused by humans. It considers the consequences of these changes with respect to the stability of the Earth system and the well-being of humankind; as well as exploring future paths towards Earth-system science in support of global sustainability. The results presented here are based on 10 years of research on global change by many of the world's most eminent scholars. This valuable volume achieves a new level of integration and interdisciplinarity in treating global change.
Author | : Fritjof Capra |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 513 |
Release | : 2014-04-10 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1107011361 |
The first volume to integrate life's biological, cognitive, social, and ecological dimensions into a single, coherent framework.
Author | : Athena Coustenis |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2013-09-12 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1107026172 |
An engaging account of our quest for habitable environments, recounting fascinating recent discoveries and providing insight into future space missions.
Author | : Charles Cockell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781139116527 |
This concise textbook combines Earth and biological sciences to explore the co-evolution of the Earth and life over geological time.
Author | : James Lovelock |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 169 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0198784880 |
Gaia, in which James Lovelock puts forward his inspirational and controversial idea that the Earth functions as a single organism, with life influencing planetary processes to form a self-regulating system aiding its own survival, is now a classic work that continues to provoke heated scientific debate.
Author | : Kendrick Frazier |
Publisher | : Time Life Medical |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780809445295 |
Briefly outlines the history of astronomy, recounts the origins of our solar system, and summarizes current knowledge about the sun, moon, stars and planets
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Publisher | : Chartwell Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014-05-07 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780785831150 |
The Atlas of Life on Earth offers a comprehensive, chronological survey of the Earth, its landscape and its life forms, from the beginning of the solar system 4.5 billion years ago to the present.The atlas is accessibly organized in six major parts, with 18 chapters devoted to each of the major geological periods, in which the crucial geological and biological developments in the history of our planet are described in lucid and intriguing detail. A concluding section looks at the ways in which the Earth and its biosphere continue to evolve today. Each chapter begins with a timeline of the geological period in question and a vivid and arresting map presenting a ‘snapshot from space' of the world as it was then. These maps, together with detailed artworks (including lavish reconstructions of prehistoric landscapes), stunning photographs, and explanatory diagrams, take the reader on a fascinating, informative, and awe-inspiring journey through time. Specially devised feature spreads illustrating graphically and elegantly the evolution and relationships of each major group of plants and animals provide the reader with an incomparable reference source. Each section of the atlas has been written by an acknowledged expert in the relevant field, ensuring clear, informed coverage of the exciting and extraordinary story of the evolution of our planet. Part 1: In the Beginning Part 2: The Early Paleozoic Part 3: The Late Paleozoic Part 4: The Mesozoic Part 5: The Tertiary Part 6: The Quaternary
Author | : Peter D. Ward |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780805075120 |
Planet Earth is middle-aged. Science has worked hard to piece together the story of the evolution of our world up to this point, but only recently have we developed the understanding and the tools to describe the entire life cycle of a planet. Ward and Brownlee, a geologist and an astronomer respectively, combine their knowledge of how the critical sustaining systems of our planet evolve through time with their understanding of the life cycles of stars and solar systems, to tell the story of the second half of Earth's life. The process of evolution will essentially reverse itself: life as we know it will subside until only the simplest forms remain. Eventually, they too will disappear. The oceans will evaporate, the atmosphere will degrade, and, as the sun slowly expands, Earth itself will eventually meet a fiery end. --From publisher description.