(DOWNLOAD) "Life in Deep Time" by J. William Schopf ~ Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
eBook details
- Title: Life in Deep Time
- Author : J. William Schopf
- Release Date : January 05, 2018
- Genre: Earth Sciences,Books,Science & Nature,Life Sciences,Geology,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 17503 KB
Description
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