TY  - BOOK
AU  - Russell,Dale A.
TI  - Islands in the cosmos: the evolution of life on land 
T2  - Life of the past
SN  - 9780253023919
AV  - QH366 .I853 2009
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Bloomington
PB  - Indiana University Press
KW  - Evolution (Biology)
KW  - Life
KW  - Origin
KW  - Biotic communities
KW  - Natural selection
KW  - Paleoecology
KW  - Paleontology
KW  - Mesozoic
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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