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As is often the case, with me at least, the last book I've read leads me to the next one. In this case it was Supercontinent: Ten Billion Years in the Life of Our Planet about plate tectonics that led me to read this book. The former had a section about how it might have been the supercontinent of Rodinia, which is believed to have existed prior to 700 million years ago, that was the partial cause of the so-called Snowball Earth.
I was a little put off by the author's flowery, adjective and adver ...more
I was a little put off by the author's flowery, adjective and adver ...more
A really engaging book, but the most frustrating part is it didn't explain why the snowball period 590 million years ago (assuming it existed, which the book does a good job of convincing you) would have led to such a proliferation of complex life.
Yes, environmental stress leads to new species. But after the thesis given in the first chapter, that this was the catalyst that led single-celled life, which had been quite content for 2.5 billion years, to suddenly go multi-cellular and all specializ ...more
Yes, environmental stress leads to new species. But after the thesis given in the first chapter, that this was the catalyst that led single-celled life, which had been quite content for 2.5 billion years, to suddenly go multi-cellular and all specializ ...more
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