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Revolutions That Made the Earth
Tim Lenton
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Description for Revolutions That Made the Earth
Paperback. The Earth that sustains us today was born out of a few remarkable revolutions, started by biological innovations and marked by global environmental consequences. Humanity's planet-reshaping activities may be the latest example. By understanding the past revolutions, we can help steer current global change toward a sustainable outcome. Num Pages: 440 pages, 80 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: PDR; PHVG; PHVJ; PSAJ; RBGF; RBGK; RBX; RNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 764.
The Earth that sustains us today was born out of a few remarkable, near-catastrophic revolutions, started by biological innovations and marked by global environmental consequences. The revolutions have certain features in common, such as an increase in the complexity, energy utilization, and information processing capabilities of life. This book describes these revolutions, showing the fundamental interdependence of the evolution of life and its non-living environment. We would not exist unless these upheavals had led eventually to 'successful' outcomes - meaning that after each one, at length, a new stable world emerged. The current planet-reshaping activities of our species ... Read more
The Earth that sustains us today was born out of a few remarkable, near-catastrophic revolutions, started by biological innovations and marked by global environmental consequences. The revolutions have certain features in common, such as an increase in the complexity, energy utilization, and information processing capabilities of life. This book describes these revolutions, showing the fundamental interdependence of the evolution of life and its non-living environment. We would not exist unless these upheavals had led eventually to 'successful' outcomes - meaning that after each one, at length, a new stable world emerged. The current planet-reshaping activities of our species ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
440
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
661g
Number of Pages
440
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199673469
SKU
V9780199673469
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About Tim Lenton
Tim Lenton is a Professor at the University of Exeter. His research focuses on understanding the behaviour of the Earth as a whole system, especially through the development and use of Earth system models. After gaining a BA in Natural Sciences at Cambridge University, he investigated what regulates the nutrient balance of the ocean and the oxygen content of the ... Read more
Reviews for Revolutions That Made the Earth
Lenton and Watson have written a remarkable and timely book which is both entertaining and impeccably researched from the beginning I felt both engaged and enlightened... With its academic rigour and, at the same time, its accessibility, the authors have clearly succeeded in their aim of writing scholarly popular science. As such, it should inspire us to learn from how ... Read more