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    (By Stuart Sutherland)

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    Author Stuart Sutherland
    “Book Descriptions: Life is stranger than fiction. Recent investigations hint at episodes in the history of life on Earth that rival the most imaginative movies. For example: Could our planet have been seeded with life from elsewhere? Did the development of life create conditions that threatened to poison the biosphere? How have natural forces conspired, over and over, to remove most traces of life from the planet? And how has life itself responded with determination to survive and thrive in a multitude of astonishing forms? Topics:
    1 The Interconnected Earth
    2 The Vast Depths of Earth Time
    3 Fossil Clocks
    4 Paleontologists as Detectives
    5 The Shifting Surface of Planet Earth
    6 Earliest Origins—Formation of the Planet
    7 Origins of Land, Ocean, and Air
    8 The Early Chemical Evolution of Life
    9 Hints of the First Life Forms
    10 How Life Transformed the Early Earth
    11 Snowball Earth—Another Crisis
    12 Metazoans—Life Grows Up
    13 Incredible Variety—The Cambrian Explosion
    14 Window to a Lost World—The Burgess Shale
    15 The Forgotten Fossils in Earth’s Story
    16 Introduction to the Great Mass Extinctions
    17 The Collapse of Earth’s First Eden
    18 Making the Break for Land
    19 Getting a Backbone—The Story of Vertebrates
    20 The Evolution of Jaws
    21 These Limbs Were Made for Walking?
    22 Tiktaalik—The Search for a Fishapod
    23 Carboniferous Giants and Coal
    24 Amniotes—The Shape of Things to Come
    25 Permian Extinction—Life’s Worst Catastrophe
    26 Finding the Killer—The Greenhouse Earth
    27 The Dinosaurs Take Over
    28 Letting the Dinosaurs Speak—Paleobehavior
    29 Conquering the Air—The Evolution of Flight
    30 Monsters of the Deep—Mesozoic Oceans
    31 The Cretaceous Earth—A Tropical Planet
    32 The Sky Is Falling—End of the Dinosaurs
    33 The Collision of North and South America
    34 The Rise of Mammals and the Last Ice Age
    35 The Humble Origins of Human Beings
    36 The Conscious Earth”

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