10.3: Further reading and resources
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\(\newcommand{\avec}{\mathbf a}\) \(\newcommand{\bvec}{\mathbf b}\) \(\newcommand{\cvec}{\mathbf c}\) \(\newcommand{\dvec}{\mathbf d}\) \(\newcommand{\dtil}{\widetilde{\mathbf d}}\) \(\newcommand{\evec}{\mathbf e}\) \(\newcommand{\fvec}{\mathbf f}\) \(\newcommand{\nvec}{\mathbf n}\) \(\newcommand{\pvec}{\mathbf p}\) \(\newcommand{\qvec}{\mathbf q}\) \(\newcommand{\svec}{\mathbf s}\) \(\newcommand{\tvec}{\mathbf t}\) \(\newcommand{\uvec}{\mathbf u}\) \(\newcommand{\vvec}{\mathbf v}\) \(\newcommand{\wvec}{\mathbf w}\) \(\newcommand{\xvec}{\mathbf x}\) \(\newcommand{\yvec}{\mathbf y}\) \(\newcommand{\zvec}{\mathbf z}\) \(\newcommand{\rvec}{\mathbf r}\) \(\newcommand{\mvec}{\mathbf m}\) \(\newcommand{\zerovec}{\mathbf 0}\) \(\newcommand{\onevec}{\mathbf 1}\) \(\newcommand{\real}{\mathbb R}\) \(\newcommand{\twovec}[2]{\left[\begin{array}{r}#1 \\ #2 \end{array}\right]}\) \(\newcommand{\ctwovec}[2]{\left[\begin{array}{c}#1 \\ #2 \end{array}\right]}\) \(\newcommand{\threevec}[3]{\left[\begin{array}{r}#1 \\ #2 \\ #3 \end{array}\right]}\) \(\newcommand{\cthreevec}[3]{\left[\begin{array}{c}#1 \\ #2 \\ #3 \end{array}\right]}\) \(\newcommand{\fourvec}[4]{\left[\begin{array}{r}#1 \\ #2 \\ #3 \\ #4 \end{array}\right]}\) \(\newcommand{\cfourvec}[4]{\left[\begin{array}{c}#1 \\ #2 \\ #3 \\ #4 \end{array}\right]}\) \(\newcommand{\fivevec}[5]{\left[\begin{array}{r}#1 \\ #2 \\ #3 \\ #4 \\ #5 \\ \end{array}\right]}\) \(\newcommand{\cfivevec}[5]{\left[\begin{array}{c}#1 \\ #2 \\ #3 \\ #4 \\ #5 \\ \end{array}\right]}\) \(\newcommand{\mattwo}[4]{\left[\begin{array}{rr}#1 \amp #2 \\ #3 \amp #4 \\ \end{array}\right]}\) \(\newcommand{\laspan}[1]{\text{Span}\{#1\}}\) \(\newcommand{\bcal}{\cal B}\) \(\newcommand{\ccal}{\cal C}\) \(\newcommand{\scal}{\cal S}\) \(\newcommand{\wcal}{\cal W}\) \(\newcommand{\ecal}{\cal E}\) \(\newcommand{\coords}[2]{\left\{#1\right\}_{#2}}\) \(\newcommand{\gray}[1]{\color{gray}{#1}}\) \(\newcommand{\lgray}[1]{\color{lightgray}{#1}}\) \(\newcommand{\rank}{\operatorname{rank}}\) \(\newcommand{\row}{\text{Row}}\) \(\newcommand{\col}{\text{Col}}\) \(\renewcommand{\row}{\text{Row}}\) \(\newcommand{\nul}{\text{Nul}}\) \(\newcommand{\var}{\text{Var}}\) \(\newcommand{\corr}{\text{corr}}\) \(\newcommand{\len}[1]{\left|#1\right|}\) \(\newcommand{\bbar}{\overline{\bvec}}\) \(\newcommand{\bhat}{\widehat{\bvec}}\) \(\newcommand{\bperp}{\bvec^\perp}\) \(\newcommand{\xhat}{\widehat{\xvec}}\) \(\newcommand{\vhat}{\widehat{\vvec}}\) \(\newcommand{\uhat}{\widehat{\uvec}}\) \(\newcommand{\what}{\widehat{\wvec}}\) \(\newcommand{\Sighat}{\widehat{\Sigma}}\) \(\newcommand{\lt}{<}\) \(\newcommand{\gt}{>}\) \(\newcommand{\amp}{&}\) \(\definecolor{fillinmathshade}{gray}{0.9}\)Buatois, L.A. and Buatois, L.A. 2016. “Ediacaran Ecosystems and the Dawn of Animals,” in Mángano, M.G. and Buatois, L.A. (eds.) The Trace-Fossil Record of Major Evolutionary Events. Topics in Geobiology, volume 39. DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-9600-2_2
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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Allwood, A.C., Rosing, M.T., Flannery, D.T., Hurowitz, J.A., and Heirwegh, C.M. 2018. Reassessing evidence of life in 3,700-million-year-old rocks of Greenland. Nature 563: 241–244. doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0610-4
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.
Herron, M.D., Borin, J.M., Boswell, J.C., Walker, J., Chen, I.K., Knox, C.A., Boyd, M., Rosenzweig, F., and Ratcliff, W.C. 2019. De novo origins of multicellularity in response to predation. Scientific Reports 9: 2328.
Dodd, M.S., Papineau, D., Grenne, T., Slack, J.F., Rittner, M., Pirajno, F., O’Neil, J. and Little, C.T.S. 2017. Evidence for early life in Earth’s oldest hydrothermal vent precipitates. Nature 543: 60-64.
Jokela, J. ,Dybdahl, M.F., and Lively, C.M. 2009. The Maintenance of Sex, Clonal Dynamics, and Host-Parasite Coevolution in a Mixed Population of Sexual and Asexual Snails. The American Naturalist 174 (s1): S43. doi: 10.1086/599080
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.