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Charles S. Cockell - Impossible Extinction, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2003

Impossible Extinction

Natural Catastrophes and the Supremacy of the Microbial World

Av Charles S. Cockell

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Beskrivning
Every 225 million years the Earth, and all the life on it, completes one revolution around our Milky Way Galaxy. During this remarkable journey, life is influenced by calamitous changes. Comets and asteroids strike the surface of the Earth, stars explode near by, enormous volcanoes erupt, and more recently, humans litter the planet with waste. Many animals and plants become extinct during the voyage, but humble microbes, simple creatures made of a single cell, survive this journey. This book takes a tour of the microbial world, from the coldest and deepest places on Earth to the hottest and highest, and witnesses some of the most catastrophic events that life can face. Impossible Extinction tells this remarkable story for the general reader explaining how microbes have survived on Earth for over three billion years.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2003-03-03
  • Mått: 161 x 237 x 17 mm
  • Vikt: 477 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 200
  • Förlag: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9780521817363
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Charles Cockell is a microbiologist with the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute (SETI). He is based at the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge.

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'Here chronicled, in an most entertaining style, is a remarkable journey into the remote reaches of life's long history - to an ancient world populated by microbes and their kin that have miraculously survived even to the present day. Well-researched. Riveting. A delightful read. And brought to us by Charles Cockell, one of the world's emerging experts on this history of earthly life and our best possible guide for this fascinating story.' Professor J. William Schopf, UCLA Center for the Study of Evolution and the Origin of Life

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