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Author: David Wacey
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When did life first appear on Earth and what form did it take? The answer to this intriguing and fundamentally important question lies somewhere within the early Archean rock record. The young Earth was, however, a very different place to that we know today and numerous pitfalls await our interpretation of these most ancient rocks.

The first half of this practical guide equips the reader with the background knowledge to successfully evaluate new potentially biological finds from the Archean rock record. Successive steps are covered, from locating promising samples in the field, through standard petrography and evaluation of antiquity and biogenicity criteria, to the latest state of the art geochemical techniques. The second half of the guide uniquely brings together all the materials that have been claimed to comprise the earliest fossil record into an easily accessible, fully illustrated format.

This will be a handbook that every Archean geologist, palaeobiologist and astrobiologist will wish to have in their backpack or on their lab-bench.

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Title Early Life on Earth: A Practical Guide
Author David Wacey
Binding Hardback
Edition number 1st
Edition 1
Pages 274
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Springer
Publication date 2009-01-29
Illustrated Yes
Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
ISBN 9781402093883 / 1402093888
Weight 1.35 lbs (0.61 kg)
Dimensions 9.3 x 6.3 x 0.6 in (23.62 x 16.00 x 1.52 cm)
Category Science
Library of Congress subjects Evolution, Life - Origin
Dewey Decimal Code 560.171

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About the author

David Wacey is a University Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia in Perth. He graduated with honours from Oxford University in 1998 and then undertook a D.Phil. investigating the geochemistry and microbiology of modern and ancient dolomite formation. It was during this time that he became interested in primitive microbes and how the earliest life on Earth may have arisen and evolved. On completion of his D. Phil he decided to concentrate his research on the earliest rocks found on Earth. After 12 years at Oxford he relocated to Western Australia where he now works on a number of problems relating to the recognition and understanding of the earliest signs of life of Earth. More information can be found here: http: //cmca.uwa.edu.au/contact_directory

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