Biological Innovations that Built the World

A Four-billion-year Journey through Life and Earth History

Roberto Ligrone (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XIX, 490 Seiten

2019 | 1st ed. 2019
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-16056-2 (ISBN)

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The book is a detailed account of major biological events that contributed to create the present world and our species, with emphasis on cause-effect interrelationships and environmental impact. Its main goal is to guide the reader toward an understanding of the continuity of life across diversity, and of its large-scale interactions with the planet. Combining scientific soundness with a constant effort for clarity, the book begins with a cloud of dust in a corner of the Galaxy and, covering an immense lapse of time, terminates with an organism that ponders about the texture of the Universe. Comprehensive, updated references added to each chapter will help the reader wishing to expand any of the topics. A glossary explains less common technical terms.

Roberto Ligrone: Professor of Plant Biology at the Second University of Naples, now University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, he retired in 2014. His main research interest was evolutionary biology of lower land plants, a field in which he has gained international reputation. He is also an author of several textbooks and dissemination papers.

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. The Origins.- Chapter 3. The Birth of Life.- Chapter 4. Moving to the Light: The Evolution of Photosynthesis.- Chapter 5. The Great Oxygenation. - Chapter 6. Eukaryotes.- Chapter 7. Sexual Reproduction.- Chapter 8. Multicellularity.- Chapter 9. The Chloroplast and Photosynthetic Eukaryotes.- Chapter 10. The Animals.- Chapter 11. Land Plants.- Chapter 12. The Emergence of Humanity.- Chapter 13. Synopsis.- Chapter 14. Glossary.- Chapter 15. Analytic Index.

Erscheinungsdatum	16.06.2019
Zusatzinfo	XIX, 490 p. 192 illus., 47 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	923 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
Schlagworte	cause-effect interrelationships • integrative biology • major biological events • origin and the sense of existence • origin of life
ISBN-10	3-030-16056-4 / 3030160564
ISBN-13	978-3-030-16056-2 / 9783030160562
Zustand	Neuware