10.3: Further reading and resources
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Wei-Hass, M. 2018. “World’s Oldest Fossils May Just Be Pretty Rocks,” National Geographic.
Knoll, A. H. 2015. Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth. Princeton University Press.
The Shape of Life, a website dedicated to “The Story of the Animal Kingdom.”
Shaw, S.R. 2014. Planet of the Bugs: Evolution and the Rise of Insects. University of Chicago Press.
Shubin, N. 2008. Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body. Pantheon Press.
Annie McEwen, Bethel Habte, Latif Nasser, Matt Kielty, Simon Adler and Tracie Hunte (2017). “Bigger Little Questions,” Radiolab podcast/episode, WNYC.
Citations
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Bekker, A., Sokur, T., Shumlyanskyy, L., Junium, C.L. Podkovyrov, V., Kuznetsov, A., Love, G.D., Pehr, K. 2018. Ediacara biota flourished in oligotrophic and bacterially dominated marine environments across Baltica. Nature Communications. 9(1): 1807. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-04195-8
Bobrovskiy, I., Hope, J.M., Ivantsov, A.,; Nettersheim, B.J., Hallmann, C., Brocks, J.J. 2018. Ancient steroids establish the Ediacaran fossil Dickinsonia as one of the earliest animals. Science 361 (6408): 1246–1249. doi:10.1126/science.aat7228
Boraas, M.E., Seale, D.B. and Boxhorn, J.E. 1998. Phagotrophy by a flagellate selects for colonial prey: a possible origin of multicellularity. Evolutionary Ecology 12: 153–164.
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MacIver, M.A., Schmitz, L., Mugan, U., Murphey, T.D., Mobley, C.D. 2017. Leap in visual range preceded the leap to land. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114 (12): E2375-E2384. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1615563114
Marchi, S., Bottke, W.F., Elkins-Tanton, L.T., Bierhaus, M., Wuennemann, K., Morbidelli, A., Kring, D.A. 2014. Widespread mixing and burial of Earth’s Hadean crust by asteroid impacts. Nature 511(7511): 578-582. doi:10.1038/nature13539
Marshall, C., Emry, J., and Olcott Marshall, A. 2011. Haematite pseudomicrofossils present in the 3.5-billion-year-old Apex Chert. Nature Geoscience 4: 240–243. doi: 10.1038/ngeo1084
Nutman, A., Bennett, V., Friend, C., Van Kranendonk, M.J., Chivas, A.R. 2016. Rapid emergence of life shown by discovery of 3,700-million-year-old microbial structures. Nature 537: 535–538. doi.org/10.1038/nature19355
Schopf, J. W. 1993. Microfossils of the early Archean Apex Chert: New evidence of the antiquity of life. Science 260, 640–646 (1993).
Wacey, D., Kilburn, M.R., Saunder, M., Cliff, J. and Brasier, M.D. 2011. Microfossils of sulphur-metabolizing cells in 3.4-billion-year-old rocks of Western Australia. Nature Geoscience 4: 698-702.