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도서 상세설명
Contributors
Introduction
1 The physical setting for early life 3
2 What good is nitrogen: an evolutionary perspective 25
3 The coupled evolution of life and atmospheric oxygen 35
4 Chemistry of the early oceans: the environment of early life 55
5 The role of carbon dioxide in plant evolution 65
6 The sun: the impetus for life 87
7 Could life travel across interplanetary space? Panspermia revisted 109
8 Genome evolution and the impact of the physical environment 131
9 The impact of gravity on life 143
10 Gravity, the atmosphere and the evolution of animal locomotion 161
11 Evolution and low temperatures 187
12 Temperature, tectonics, and evolution 209
13 The interplay of physical and biotic factors in marcoevolution 235
14 The causes of Phanerozoic extinctions 253
15 Drifting continents and life on Earth 279
16 Land/sea relations and speciation in the marine and terrestrial realms 297
17 Tectonics, climatic change, and the evolution of mammalian ecosystems 319
18 Ice ages: species distributions, and evolution 339
19 Environmental variability and its impact on adaptive evolution, with special reference to human origins 363
20 Climatic change, and the beginnings of agriculture: the case of the Younger Dryas 379
21 The physical constraints on extraterrestial life 397
Epilogue 415
Glossary 419
Index 429