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FOURTH EDITION
HISTORY OF LIFE
RICHARD COWEN
University of California, Davis
Blackwell
F'ublishing
Contents
Preface viii
CHAPTER ONE:
The Origin of Life on Earth 1
How Geology Works 1
How Paleontology Works 2
The Origin of Life 3
Where Did Life Evolve? 11
Energy Sources for the First Life 12
CHAPTER TWO:
Earth's Earliest Life 16
HowDoWeKnowtheAgeofaFossil? 18
Life Alters a Planet 19
Earth's Oldest Rocks 21
Earth's Oldest Cells 22
Earth's Early Atmosphere and Climate 24
Banded Iron Formations 25
The Oxygen Revolution 26
CHAPTER THREE:
Sex and Nuclei: Eukaryotes 29
Symbiosis and Endosymbiosis 29
Eukaryotes in the Fossil Record 32
Evolution and Natural Selection 33
The Evolution of Sex 34
The Classification of Eukaryotes 3 6
Cladistics 37
CHAPTER FOUR:
The Evolution of Metazoans 42
Proterozoic Protists 42
Evolving Metazoans from Protists 43
Evolution and Development in Metazoans 47
The Variety of Metazoans 49
Snowball or Slushball Earth 50
CHAPTER FIVE:
The Cambrian Explosion 54
Ediacaran (Vendian) Animals 54
The Evolution of Skeletons 56
The Burgess Fauna 58
Solving the Cambrian Explosion 59
CHAPTER SIX:
Changing Life in a Changing World
Diversity Patterns in the Fossil Record 64
Global Tectonics and Global Diversity 65
Changing Faunas Through Time 69
Increase in Global Diversity 73
Extinction and Mass Extinctions 73
The Permo-Triassic (P—T) Extinction 75
Evolutionary Radiations 80
CHAPTER SEVEN:
The Early Vertebrates 84
Vertebrate Origins 84
The Evolution of Jaws 88
Bony Fishes 91
vi CONTENTS
CHAPTER EIGHT:
Leaving the Water 95
The Origin of Land Plants 95
The Earliest Land Floras 98
Comparing Plant and Animal Evolution 101
The First Land Animals 102
Air Breathing 104
Limbs and Feet: Why Become Tetrapod? 107
The First Tetrapods 110
CHAPTER NINE:
Tetrapods and Amniotes 113
Early Tetrapods 113
Amniotes and Amniota 117
Carboniferous Land Ecology 121
CHAPTER TEN:
Early Amniotes and
Thermoregulation 124
The Amniote Radiation 124
Pelycosaurs 125
Pelycosaur Biology and Ecology 126
Vegetarian Pelycosaurs 128
Flow Does Herbivory Evolve in Tetrapods? 129
Thermoregulation in Living Reptiles 130
Permian Changes 132
The Invasion of Gondwana 133
Therapsid Evolution 134
CHAPTER ELEVEN:
The Triassic Takeover 139
Diapsids 139
The Triassic Diapsid Takeover: The Pattern 141
Respiration, Metabolism, and Locomotion 143
Rhynchosaurs 146
Locomotion and Triassic Archosauromorphs 146
Dinosaur Ancestors 149
CHAPTER TWELVE:
Dinosaurs 151
Theropods 151
Ornithischians 156
Sauropodomorphs 157
Dinosaur Paleobiology: Life at Large Size 159
Dinosaur Behavior 161
Dinosaur Eggs and Nests 163
Were Dinosaurs Warmblooded? 164
Dinosaurs with Feathers 166
Doubts about Endothermy? 169
CHAPTER THIRTEEN:
The Evolution of Flight 176
Flight in Insects 177
Parachuting Vertebrates 179
Pterosaurs 181
Birds 185
Bats 192
CHAPTER FOURTEEN:
The Modernization of Land
and Sea 196
Mesozoic Ocean Ec systems 196
The Modernization of Land Plants 203
Mesozoic Plants and Pollination 204
Mesozoic Plants and Seed Dispersal 206
Angiosperms and Mesozoic Ecology 209
CHAPTER FIFTEEN:
The Origin of Mammals 213
Evolving Mammalian Characters 214
Mammalian Reproduction 218
Early Mammals 220
Therian Mammals 223
The Inferiority of Mammals 225
CHAPTER SIXTEEN:
The End of the Dinosaurs 228
An Asteroid or Cometary Impact? 229
A Giant Volcanic Eruption? 231
Did a Catastrophe Cause the Extinctions? 231
Paleontological Evidence From the K—T Boundary 232
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN:
Cenozoic Mammals: Origins,
Guilds, and Trends 238
The Evolution of Cenozoic Maxnmals 239
Ecological Replacement: The Guild Concept 244
The Savanna Story 248
Evolution by Improvement 250
CONTENTS vii
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN:
Geography and Evolution 255
Australia 255
New Zealand 258
South America 259
Africa 262
Islands and Biogeography 264
CHAPTER NINETEEN:
Primates 267
The Living Prosimians 268
Earliest Primates 268
The Origin of Anthropoids 271
Emergence of the Hominoids 274
CHAPTER TWENTY:
Evolving Toward Humans 278
Homo erectus- the First Real Homo? 286
The Origin of Homo sapiens 289
The Neanderthals 290
Evolution Among Humans Today 293
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE:
Life in the Ice Age 297
Ice Ages and Climatic Change 297
The Present Ice Age 299
Life and Climate in the Ice Ages 300
Continental Changes 301
The Americas 304
Australia 307
Island Extinctions 308
Experienced Faunas 310
The World Today 312
Index 316
Australopithecines 279
The Appearance (or Not) of Homo 283 |
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