Russell, Dale A. <br/><br/>
Islands in the cosmos :  the evolution of life on land / 
Dale A. Russell ; foreword by Simon Conway Morris. 
 - Bloomington :  Indiana University Press,  (c)2009. 
 - 1 online resource (xxi, 453 pages) :  illustrations (some color), maps (some color). 
 - Life of the past .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Time travel --  The extraterrestrial pre-Hadean --  The Hadean eon --  The Archean eon --  The Proterozoic eon --  Phanerozoic marine life --  Origin of complex terrestrial ecosystems --  Toward the coal age --  Ascendancy of life on land --  Bridging the eras --  The natural history of natural selection --  An age of giants --  One Earth, two worlds --  The modern Earth --  Synthesis. 
<br/><br/> Dale Russell traces the evolution of life on land and considers the future for the human species. He argues that a lifeform that has developed the ability to acquire knowledge from experience, to optimize behaviour, to conceptualize and to distinguish good from bad may have a future that science is only beginning to understand. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780253023919 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Evolution (Biology)<br/>Life--Origin.<br/>Biotic communities.<br/>Natural selection.<br/>Paleoecology.<br/>Paleontology--Mesozoic.<br/>Natural selection.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QH366  / .I853 2009