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Life on a Young Planet

by Andrew H. Knoll

  • FINISHED
  • Finished June 2026
  • First published 2003

earth science evolutionary biology paleontology

Knoll, a paleontologist, traces the first three billion years of life from the oldest fossils to the rise of animals.   He shows how changes in the oceans and atmosphere and in living things shaped each other.