Chapter 3. Life’s Signature in Ancient Rocks

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Preface to the New Paperback Edition xi
5. Prologue 1
6. Chapter 1. In the Beginning? 6
7. Chapter 2. The Tree of Life 16
8. Chapter 3. Life’s Signature in Ancient Rocks 32
9. Chapter 4. The Earliest Glimmers of Life 50
10. Chapter 5. The Emergence of Life 72
11. Chapter 6. The Oxygen Revolution 89
12. Chapter 7. The Cyanobacteria, Life’s Microbial Heroes 108
13. Chapter 8. The Origins of Eukaryotic Cells 122
14. Chapter 9. Fossils of Early Eukaryotes 139
15. Chapter 10. Animals Take the Stage 161
16. Chapter 11. Cambrian Redux 179
17. Chapter 12. Dynamic Earth, Permissive Ecology 206
18. Chapter 13. Paleontology ad Astra 225
19. Epilogue 243
20. Further Reading 247
21. Index 269