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Index
Preface
ix
Acknowledgments
xiii
Introduction
1
1
Respiration and the Body Plans of Animal Life
9
2
Oxygen Through Time
31
3
Evolving Respiratory Systems as a Cause of the Cambrian Explosion
51
4
The Ordovician: Cambrian Explosion Part II
81
5
The Silurian-Devonian: How an Oxygen Spike Allowed the First Conquest of Land
89
6
The Carboniferous-Early Permian: High Oxygen, Fires, and Giants
111
7
The Permian Extinction and the Evolution of Endothermy
133
8
The Triassic Explosion
159
9
The Jurassic: Dinosaur Hegemony in a Low-Oxygen World
199
10
The Cretaceous Extinction and the Rise of Large Mammals
223
11
Should We Fear the Oxygen Future?
229
References
237
Appendix
261
Index
265
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