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Life in Deep Time: Darwin’s “Missing” Fossil Record de J. William Schopf

Life in Deep Time: Darwin’s “Missing” Fossil Record

Autor J. William Schopf
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 noi 2018
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
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781138385498
ISBN-10: 1138385492
Pagini: 250
Ilustrații: 1 Tables, black and white; 19 Illustrations, color; 79 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: CRC Press
Colecția CRC Press

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Cuprins

Introduction
Chapter 1 The Schopf Lineage
Chapter 2 Bill Schopf’s Schooling and First Year of College
Chapter 3 Earth’s Early Life – The Quest Begins
Chapter 4 The Missing Precambrian Record of Life
Chapter 5 Graduate School and Early Career
Chapter 6 The 1970s – Lucky, Time and Time Again
Chapter 7 The 1980s – The PPRG Defines the Field
Chapter 8 This Science Over the Years
Chapter 9 Today’s Status of This Science
Chapter 10 Final Comments
Addendum: Selected Relevant Literature in Chronological Order
Index

Recenzii

Bill Schopf is a remarkable man, a great scientist and a fine writer... The voice of Bill Schopf is a humble yet commanding one: it deserves to be heard.
"This retrospective might provide an important test case for philosophers of science interested in questions about optimism versus pessimism in reconstructing the deep past. This is a case where methodological innovation has enabled scientists to extract more information about life in deep time than earlier researchers ever suspected was possible, but new discoveries continuously highlight remaining gaps in our understanding of life’s early history." - Derek D. Turner and Ahmed AboHamad, Philosophy, Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut

Bill Schopf is a remarkable man, a great scientist and a fine writer. The various threads of the tale he relates here add up to a storied saga of the evidenced-based search for the earliest life on the planet, as well as that of the distinguished if often otherwise anonymous men and women who were responsible for marking one of the greatest milestones in recent scientific history. The voice of Bill Schopf is a humble yet commanding one: it deserves to be heard.
"This retrospective might provide an important test case for philosophers of science interested in questions about optimism versus pessimism in reconstructing the deep past. This is a case where methodological innovation has enabled scientists to extract more information about life in deep time than earlier researchers ever suspected was possible, but new discoveries continuously highlight remaining gaps in our understanding of life’s early history." - Derek D. Turner and Ahmed AboHamad, Philosophy, Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut

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This book documents astonishing discoveries revealing the first 85% of of the history of life. These earliest periods of life on Earth, once perceived as unknowable, emerge as a tale of individual exploration told by a scholar whose 60 years of research uncovered the richness and diversity which forms the foundation of todays biodiversity.