Darwin's Lost World by Martin Brasier
Darwin puzzled over why ancient Precambrian rocks seemed barren of life. Brasier describes the quest to shed light on Darwin's Lost World, the discovery of its strange creatures, and what drove the sudden flurry of evolution called the Cambrian Explosion, amid tales told with relish of expeditions to the remotest corners of the world.
The story is part travelogue, part memoir, told in an individual style with singular anecdotesThis is a scientific adventure that will entertain and inform general readers and has the potential to inspire the next generation of young researchers. The Quarterly Review of Biology ...the most lively book about matters Cambrian and earlier. Martin Braiser has an engaging personality which comes across well in print. Richard A. Fortey, Times Literary Supplement Engaging account. New Scientist If there is one book in this crop that Darwin himself would surely have appreciated, it is 'Darwin's Lost World'. Clive Cookson, Financial Times
Martin Brasier, Professor of Palaeobiology, University of Oxford Martin Brasier is an English paleontologist made known from his study of microfossils, the Origin of Life, and Precambrian fossils such as the Ediacara biota. He is Professor of Palaeobiology at the University of Oxford. He has worked on the Cambrian Explosion and was leader of the UN 's IGCP
project on defining the Cambrian geological period. His own book on the subject, Darwin's Lost World: The hidden history of animal life was published in 2009 as part of the Charles Darwin centenary.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780199548972 |
| ISBN 10 | 0199548978 |
| Title | Darwin's Lost World |
| Author | Martin Brasier |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2009-02-12 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
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