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Biodiversity and Earth History

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By: Jens Boenigk(Author), Sabina Wodniok(Author), Edvard Glücksman(Author)
401 pages, 464 colour & 12 b/w photos and illustrations, 20 tables
Publisher: Springer Nature
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About this book

This uniquely interdisciplinary textbook explores the exciting and complex relationship between Earth's geological history and the biodiversity of life. Its innovative design provides a seamless learning experience, clarifying major concepts step by step with detailed textual explanations complemented by detailed figures, diagrams and vibrant pictures. Thanks to its layout, the respective concepts can be studied individually, as part of the broader framework of each chapter, or as they relate to Biodiversity and Earth History as a whole.

It provides in-depth coverage of:
– Earth's formation and subsequent geological history, including patterns of climate change and atmospheric evolution;
– The early stages of life, from microbial 'primordial soup' theories to the fossil record's most valuable contributions;
– Mechanisms of mutual influence between living organisms and the environment: how life changed Earth's history whilst, at the same time, environmental pressures continue to shape the evolution of species;
– Basic ideas in biodiversity studies: species concepts, measurement techniques, and global distribution patterns;
– Biological systematics, from their historical origins in Greek philosophy and Biblical stories to Darwinian evolution by natural selection, and to phylogenetics based on cutting-edge molecular techniques.

Biodiversity and Earth History's four major sections offer a fresh cross-disciplinary overview of biodiversity and the Earth's history. Among many other concepts, they reveal the massive diversity of eukaryotes, explain the geological processes behind fossilisation, and provide an eye-opening account of the relatively short period of human evolution in the context of Earth's 4.6 billion-year history. Employing a combination of proven didactic tools, Biodiversity and Earth History is simultaneously a reading reference, illustrated guide, and encyclopaedia of organismal biology and geology. It is aimed at school- and university-level students, as well as members of the public fascinated by the intricate interrelationship of living organisms and their environment.

Contents

1. Introduction
2. Earth's History
3. Distribution of present-day biodiversity
4. Megasystematics

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Textbook
By: Jens Boenigk(Author), Sabina Wodniok(Author), Edvard Glücksman(Author)
401 pages, 464 colour & 12 b/w photos and illustrations, 20 tables
Publisher: Springer Nature
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"It is a rare event for a book review to begin with words like innovative and original, but they are appropriate for this unusual and exceptional textbook. [...] The publishers deserve congratulations on the very high standards of production that greatly enhance the value of the book. In conclusion, this is a reference textbook that should be available to all students of Earth Sciences, Biology, and Biogeography."
– Peter Moore, BES Bulletin 46(4), December 2015

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