Revolutions that Made the Earth 1st Edition by Tim Lenton, Andrew Watson ISBN 978-0199587049 0199587043
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ISBN 10: 0199587043
ISBN 13: 978-0199587049
Author: Tim Lenton, Andrew Watson
The Earth that sustains us today was born out of a few remarkable, near-catastrophic revolutions, started by biological innovations and marked by global environmental consequences. The revolutions have certain features in common, such as an increase in the complexity, energy utilization, and information processing capabilities of life. This book describes these revolutions, showing the fundamental interdependence of the evolution of life and its non-living environment. We would not exist unless these upheavals had led eventually to ‘successful’ outcomes – meaning that after each one, at length, a new stable world emerged.
The current planet-reshaping activities of our species may be the start of another great Earth system revolution, but there is no guarantee that this one will be successful. This book explains what a successful transition through it might look like, if we are wise enough to steer such a course.
This book places humanity in context as part of the Earth system, using a new scientific synthesis to illustrate our debt to the deep past and our potential for the future.
Table of contents:
Part I: Introduction
Chapter 1: Origins
Chapter 2: Carbon and oxygen
Chapter 3: Russian dolls
Chapter 4: The revolutions
Part II: Theory
Chapter 5: The anthropic Earth
Chapter 6: The critical steps
Chapter 7: Playing Gaia
Part III: The oxygen revolution
Chapter 8: Photosynthesis
Chapter 9: The trial of the oxygen poisoners
Chapter 10: The Great Oxidation
Part IV: The complexity revolution
Chapter 11: Life gets an upgrade
Chapter 12: When did eukaryotes evolve?
Chapter 13: The not-so-boring billion
Chapter 14: The Neoproterozoic
Part V: Interlude
Chapter 15: Animals and oxygen
Chapter 16: The grand recycling coalition
Chapter 17: Rolls of the dice
Part VI:
A new revolution?
Chapter 18: Climate wobbles
Chapter 19: The origins of us
Chapter 20: Review
Chapter 21: Where next?
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