Books about the first bacteria fossils

[José Luís]

Hello! As I didn't know where to post this request for help I decided to post in the General posts. I have been reading some Biology books in the last months and although I knew that bacteria fossils existed (or at least that many scientists defend their existence as thare is still some controversy around them even if it's almost unanimous that the bacteria of the Archaean and Proterozoic periods left fossils and I'm not talking about the stromatolites left by some cyanobacterias but about actual fossils even if they are rare) before reading them as a science student, I was more interested by that issue and I wanted to know some more details. Which books may you recommend me?

[Emily]

I am reading The Amoeba in the Room which is about microbes. I'm not sure if it goes into fossils because they're so rare. If you do find a book, let me know!!

[Betsy, co-mod]

I moved this thread from the General folder to the Additional Book Discussions folder, which seems a little more pertinent to me.

[Robbower]

Cradle of Life by J. William Schopf (1999, Princeton Univ. Press) gives a good, fairly complete account of the earliest supposed micro-fossils in the 19th and early 20th centuries, to the generally accepted cyanobacteria and other fossils known today. Also coverage of supposed fossils in Martian rocks.

[José Luís]

Thank you very much, Robbwover. I'll soon add that
book to my reading list.