Oxygen: A Four Billion Year History by Donald E. Canfield
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Overview: The air we breathe is twenty-one percent oxygen, an amount higher than on any other known world. While we may take our air for granted, Earth was not always an oxygenated planet. How did it become this way? “Oxygen” is the most current account of the history of atmospheric oxygen on Earth. Donald Canfield–one of the world’s leading authorities on geochemistry, earth history, and the early oceans–covers this vast history, emphasizing its relationship to the evolution of life and the evolving chemistry of the Earth. With an accessible and colorful first-person narrative, he draws from a variety of fields, including geology, paleontology, geochemistry, biochemistry, animal physiology, and microbiology, to explain why our oxygenated Earth became the ideal place for life.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational
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