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Palaeontologist Donald R. Prothero squares up to the difficult job of discussing how life and environment have actually formed each other over the 4.5 billion years of Earth’s history. Exceptionally, his book primarily prospers
By Michael Marshall
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When the very first life took hold in the world, it began affecting the environment
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The Story of Earth’s Climate in 25 Discoveries
Donald R. Prothero (Columbia University Press, out 12 March)
IT IS is a truism to state that life and environment are linked. Living organisms can alter Earth’s environment by, state, draining or taking in the greenhouse gases that warm the world. Similarly, environment impacts life by making conditions too hot, too cold or too dry for some organisms to endure.
This implies that the story of life is likewise the …
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