Tyrrell On Gaia

A Critical Investigation of the Relationship between Life and Earth
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-4791-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Tyrrell, Toby

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Meteorologie, Klimatologie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Geologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix

1. Gaia, the Grand Idea 1

2. Good Citizens or Selfish Genes? 14

3. Life at the Edge: Lessons from Extremophiles 47

4. Temperature Paces Life 67

5. Icehouse Earth 88

6. Given Enough Time. 113

7. Evolutionary Innovations and Environmental Change 130

8. A Stable or an Unstable World? 145

9. The Puzzle of Life's Long Persistence 171

10. Conclusions 199

Notes 219

Further Reading 273

References 277

Acknowledgments 299

Index 301

Über Autor(innen)

Toby Tyrrell is professor of Earth system science at the National Oceanography Centre Southampton (University of Southampton).