Islands in the cosmos
Subtitle: the evolution of life on land
By: Dale A. Russell ; foreword by Simon Conway Morris.
Series: Life of the past
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780253352736
Subjects: Evolution (Biology); Life -- Origin; Biotic communities; Natural selection; Paleoecology; Paleontology -- Mesozoic
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: aTime travel; title: The extraterrestrial pre-Hadean; title: The Hadean eon; title: The Archean eon; title: The Proterozoic eon; title: Phanerozoic marine life; title: Origin of complex terrestrial ecosystems; title: Toward the coal age; title: Ascendancy of life on land; title: Bridging the eras; title: The natural history of natural selection; title: An age of giants; title: One Earth, two worlds; title: The modern Earth; title: Synthesis.