CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
4. PREFACE TO THE PRINCETON SCIENCE LIBRARY EDITION xiii
5. PREFACE xvii
6. CHAPTER 1 Wat Is It about Planet Earth? 1
7. CHAPTER 2 Life before Oxygen 13
8. CHAPTER 3 Evolution of Oxygenic Photosynthesis 26
9. CHAPTER 4 Cyanobacteria: Te Great Liberators 41
10. CHAPTER 5 Wat Controls Atmospheric Oxygen Concentrations? 56
11. CHAPTER 6 Te Early History of Atmospheric Oxygen: Biological Evidence 72
12. CHAPTER 7 Te Early History of Atmospheric Oxygen: Geological Evidence 85
13. CHAPTER 8 Te Great Oxidation 98
14. CHAPTER 9 Earth’s Middle Ages: Wat Came after the GOE 110
15. CHAPTER 10 Neoproterozoic Oxygen and Te Rise of Animals 123
16. CHAPTER 11 Phanerozoic Oxygen 138
17. CHAPTER 12 Epilogue 153
18. NOTES 159
19. REFERENCES 175
20. INDEX 191