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Biological Innovations that Built the World: A Four-billion-year Journey through Life and Earth History - Hardcover

Ligrone, Roberto

 
9783030160562: Biological Innovations that Built the World: A Four-billion-year Journey through Life and Earth History

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The book is a detailed account of major biological events that contributed to create the present world and our species, with emphasis on cause-effect interrelationships and environmental impact. Its main goal is to guide the reader toward an understanding of the continuity of life across diversity, and of its large-scale interactions with the planet. Combining scientific soundness with a constant effort for clarity, the book begins with a cloud of dust in a corner of the Galaxy and, covering an immense lapse of time, terminates with an organism that ponders about the texture of the Universe. Comprehensive, updated references added to each chapter will help the reader wishing to expand any of the topics. A glossary explains less common technical terms.

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About the Author

Roberto Ligrone: Professor of Plant Biology at the Second University of Naples, now University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, he retired in 2014. His main research interest was evolutionary biology of lower land plants, a field in which he has gained international reputation. He is also an author of several textbooks and dissemination papers.

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The book is a detailed account of major biological events that contributed to create the present world and our species, with emphasis on cause-effect interrelationships and environmental impact. Its main goal is to guide the reader toward an understanding of the continuity of life across diversity, and of its large-scale interactions with the planet. Combining scientific soundness with a constant effort for clarity, the book begins with a cloud of dust in a corner of the Galaxy and, covering an immense lapse of time, terminates with an organism that ponders about the texture of the Universe. Comprehensive, updated references added to each chapter will help the reader wishing to expand any of the topics. A glossary explains less common technical terms.

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9783030160593: Biological Innovations that Built the World: A Four-billion-year Journey through Life and Earth History

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ISBN 10:  3030160599 ISBN 13:  9783030160593
Publisher: Springer, 2020
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