Echoes of Life
What Fossil Molecules Reveal about Earth History
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 6 November 2008
- ISBN 9780195176193
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages376 pages
- Size 157x236x30 mm
- Weight 658 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 17 black and white halftones, 87 line illustrations 0
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Short description:
In 1936 a German chemist identified certain organic molecules in ancient rocks and oils as the fossil remains of chlorophyll, presumably from plants that had lived millions of years in the past. Many years later this insight was revisited and the term biomarker coined to describe fossil molecules whose molecular structures could reveal the presence of otherwise elusive organisms and processesand then, the hunt was on.
Echoes of Life is the story of those molecules and how they illuminate the history of the earth and its life. It is also the story of how a few maverick organic chemists and geologists defied the dictates of their disciplines and, at a time when the natural sciences were fragmenting into ever-more-specialized sub-disciplines, reunited chemistry, biology and geology in a common endeavor.
Long description:
In 1936 a German chemist identified certain organic molecules in ancient rocks and oils as the fossil remains of chlorophyll, presumably from plants that had lived millions of years in the past. Many years later this insight was revisited and the term biomarker coined to describe fossil molecules whose molecular structures could reveal the presence of otherwise elusive organisms and processesand then, the hunt was on. Echoes of Life is the story of those molecules and how they illuminate the history of the earth and its life. It is also the story of how a few maverick organic chemists and geologists defied the dictates of their disciplines and, at a time when the natural sciences were fragmenting into ever-more-specialized sub-disciplines, reunited chemistry, biology and geology in a common endeavor.
Distilling the complex biochemistry and biogeology and presenting the history in a readable form is a daunting task, and Susan Gaines has done a remarkable job.
Table of Contents:
Molecular Informants: A Changing Perspective of Organic Chemistry
Looking to the Rocks: Molecular Clues to the Origin of Life
From the Moon to Mars: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life
Black Gold: An Alchemist's Guide to Petroleum
Deep Sea Mud: Biomarker Clues to Ancient Climates
More Molecules, More Mud and the Isotopic Dimension: Ancient Environments Revealed
Microbiologists (Finally) Climb on Board
Weird Molecules, Inconceivable Microbes, and Unlikely Proxies: Marine Ecology Revised
Molecular Paleontology and Biochemical Evolution
Early Life Revisited
Thinking Molecularly, Anything Goes: from Mummies to Oil Spills, Doubts to New Directions
