Prehistoric past revealed : the four billion year history of life on Earth /
Palmer, Douglas.
Berkeley ; London : University of California Press,
2003.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 173) and index.
How the present reveals the past -- Ice age (0-1.8 million years ago) -- Life's third age (1.8-65 million years ago) -- Life's middle age (65-205 million years ago) -- Life's extinction events -- Life's early age (205-545 million years ago) -- Life's beginnings (545-4000 million years ago) -- Earth's beginning (4000-4600 million years ago) -- Earth's future.
Historical geology.
Fossils.