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By Donald E. Canfield
The air we breathe is twenty-one percentage oxygen, an quantity larger than on the other identified global. whereas we may possibly take our air without any consideration, Earth was once now not consistently an oxygenated planet. How did it turn into this fashion? Oxygen is the most up-tp-date account of the historical past of atmospheric oxygen in the world. Donald Canfield--one of the world's prime professionals on geochemistry, earth historical past, and the early oceans--covers this tremendous background, emphasizing its courting to the evolution of lifestyles and the evolving chemistry of the Earth. With an obtainable and colourful first-person narrative, he attracts from a number of fields, together with geology, paleontology, geochemistry, biochemistry, animal body structure, and microbiology, to provide an explanation for why our oxygenated Earth turned the perfect position for life.
Describing which strategies, either organic and geological, act to manage oxygen degrees within the surroundings, Canfield lines the documents of oxygen concentrations via time. Readers find out about the nice oxidation occasion, the tipping aspect 2.3 billion years in the past while the oxygen content material of the Earth elevated dramatically, and Canfield examines how oxygenation created a positive surroundings for the evolution of huge animals. He courses readers in the course of the numerous traces of medical proof, considers a number of the incorrect turns and useless ends alongside the best way, and highlights the scientists and researchers who've made key discoveries within the field.
Showing how Earth's surroundings built through the years, Oxygen takes readers on a striking trip throughout the heritage of the oxygenation of our planet.
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