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Télécharger le livre : The Fatal Species
Andrew Y. Glikson
The Fatal Species
This book presents a history which is nearing its nadir, where a species of warlike primates is destroying the delicate web of life perceived by Charles Darwin in The Origin of Species, committing a war against nature and the fastest mass extinction in the history...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2021-06-24

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Télécharger le livre : The Event Horizon: Homo Prometheus and the Climate Catastrophe
Andrew Y. Glikson
The Event Horizon: Homo Prometheus and the Climate Catastrophe
 With the advent of global warming and the nuclear arms race, humans are rapidly approaching a moment of truth. Technologically supreme, they manifest their dreams and nightmares in the real world through science, art, adventures and brutal wars, a paradox...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2020-10-08

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Télécharger le livre : From Stars to Brains: Milestones in the Planetary Evolution of Life and Intelligence
Andrew Y. Glikson
From Stars to Brains: Milestones in the Planetary Evolution of Life and Intelligence
The permutation of basic atoms—nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, carbon and  phosphorus?into the biomolecules DNA and RNA, subsequently evolved in cells and brains, defining the origin of life and intelligence, remains unexplained. Equally the origin of the genetic...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2019-02-18

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Télécharger le livre : Asteroids Impacts, Crustal Evolution and Related Mineral Systems with Special Reference to Australia
Andrew Y. Glikson , Franco Pirajno
Asteroids Impacts, Crustal Evolution and Related Mineral Systems with Special Reference to Australia
This book presents a comprehensive overview of Australian impact structures and related mineralization, including a discussion of the significance of many of these structures for crustal evolution. The book  focuses in particular on Archaean impact ejecta/fallout...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2018-03-12
Collection : Modern Approaches in Solid Earth Sciences
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Télécharger le livre : Climate, Fire and Human Evolution
Andrew Y. Glikson , Colin Groves
Climate, Fire and Human Evolution
The book outlines principal milestones in the evolution of the atmosphere, oceans and biosphere during the last 4 million years in relation with the evolution from primates to the genus Homo – which uniquely mastered the ignition and transfer of fire.The advent of land...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2015-11-04
Collection : Modern Approaches in Solid Earth Sciences
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Télécharger le livre : The Archaean: Geological and Geochemical Windows into the Early Earth
Andrew Y. Glikson
The Archaean: Geological and Geochemical Windows into the Early Earth
Archaean terrains contain a wealth of structural, stratigraphic, textural, mineralogical, geochemical and isotopic features allowing insights into the nature of the early Earth. This book is based on studies during 1964-2007 ofArchaean terrains in Australia and to a...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2014-08-05
Collection : Modern Approaches in Solid Earth Sciences
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Télécharger le livre : Evolution of the Atmosphere, Fire and the Anthropocene Climate Event Horizon
Andrew Y. Glikson
Evolution of the Atmosphere, Fire and the Anthropocene Climate Event Horizon
Unique among all creatures, further to the increase in its cranial volume from Australopithecus to Homo sapiens, the use of tools and cultural and scientific creativity, the genus Homo is distinguished by the mastery of fire, which since about two million years ago has...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2013-10-08
Collection : SpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences
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Télécharger le livre : The Asteroid Impact Connection of Planetary Evolution
Andrew Y. Glikson
The Asteroid Impact Connection of Planetary Evolution
When in 1981 Louis and Walter Alvarez, the father and son team, unearthed a tell-tale Iridium-rich sedimentary horizon at the 65 million years-old Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary at Gubbio, Italy, their find heralded a paradigm shift in the study of terrestrial evolution. ...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2013-03-25
Collection : SpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences
Format(s) : ePub
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