Oxygenation, life, and the planetary system during Earth's middle history: An overview

TW Lyons, CW Diamond, NJ Planavsky, CT Reinhard… - Astrobiology, 2021 - liebertpub.com
The long history of life on Earth has unfolded as a cause-and-effect relationship with the
evolving amount of oxygen (O2) in the oceans and atmosphere. Oxygen deficiency …

Integrated records of environmental change and evolution challenge the Cambrian Explosion

R Wood, AG Liu, F Bowyer, PR Wilby… - Nature ecology & …, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract The 'Cambrian Explosion'describes the rapid increase in animal diversity and
abundance, as manifest in the fossil record, between~ 540 and 520 million years ago (Ma) …

[图书][B] The evolution of the sensitive soul: Learning and the origins of consciousness

S Ginsburg, E Jablonka - 2019 - books.google.com
A new theory about the origins of consciousness that finds learning to be the driving force in
the evolutionary transition to basic consciousness. What marked the evolutionary transition …

[图书][B] Atmospheric evolution on inhabited and lifeless worlds

DC Catling, JF Kasting - 2017 - books.google.com
As the search for Earth-like exoplanets gathers pace, in order to understand them, we need
comprehensive theories for how planetary atmospheres form and evolve. Written by two well …

The evolution of Earth's biogeochemical nitrogen cycle

EE Stüeken, MA Kipp, MC Koehler, R Buick - Earth-Science Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Nitrogen is an essential nutrient for all life on Earth and it acts as a major control on
biological productivity in the modern ocean. Accurate reconstructions of the evolution of life …

Baseline human gut microbiota profile in healthy people and standard reporting template

CH King, H Desai, AC Sylvetsky, J LoTempio… - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
A comprehensive knowledge of the types and ratios of microbes that inhabit the healthy
human gut is necessary before any kind of pre-clinical or clinical study can be performed …

Oceanic oxygenation events in the anoxic Ediacaran ocean

SK Sahoo, NJ Planavsky, G Jiang, B Kendall… - …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The ocean‐atmosphere system is typically envisioned to have gone through a unidirectional
oxygenation with significant oxygen increases in the earliest (ca. 635 Ma), middle (ca. 580 …

The stable isotope geochemistry of molybdenum

B Kendall, TW Dahl, AD Anbar - Reviews in Mineralogy …, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
“The Answer to the Great Question... Of Life, the Universe and Everything... Is... Forty-two,”
said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm…“I checked it very thoroughly,” said the …

A highly redox-heterogeneous ocean in South China during the early Cambrian (∼ 529–514 Ma): Implications for biota-environment co-evolution

C **, C Li, TJ Algeo, NJ Planavsky, H Cui… - Earth and Planetary …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The “Cambrian Explosion” is known for rapid increases in the morphological
disparity and taxonomic diversity of metazoans. It has been widely proposed that this …

Possible links between extreme oxygen perturbations and the Cambrian radiation of animals

T He, M Zhu, BJW Mills, PM Wynn, AY Zhuravlev… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The role of oxygen as a driver for early animal evolution is widely debated. During the
Cambrian explosion, episodic radiations of major animal phyla occurred coincident with …