SKELETONS · the Frame of Life by ZALASIEWICZ, JAN -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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COVER SKELETONS: THE FRAME OF LIFE COPYRIGHT DEDICATION CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS PROLOGUE 1: SKELETONS APPEAR

The First True Skeletons Attack of the Soft Animals An Eruption of Skeletons Harder and Softer Skeletons Primordial Skeletons of Lilliput?

2: A SHELL ON THE OUTSIDE

How Big is Big? Armour-Plated Animals Humpty Dumpty World Rise of the Planet of the Arthropods The Enduring Ostracods The Exoskeleton Invasion of Land The Seashells Jet-Propelled Exoskeletons Skeleton of the Argonauts The Building Trade The Slow Road to Success

3: A SHELL ON THE INSIDE

The Armoured Fish The Earliest Vertebrates The Strangest Teeth Building Blocks of a Skeleton Tooth and Jaw, but Not Yet Claw Half Fish, Half Tetrapod Amphibians to Amniotes The ‘Not Quite Dinosaurs’ of the Permian Enter the Dinosaurs A Question of Size Reclaiming the Seas The Making of the Modern Skeleton A New Skeleton Diversity All Fours to Upright The Roots of Human Abundance From Hand to Mouth The ‘Hedgehog Skin’ Animals The Shape-Shifters

4: PLANT SKELETONS

Early Days The River Revolution The Moving Plant Skeletons The Grit in Grass

5: MEGA-SKELETONS

The Coral Skeleton The Wider Reef The Deeper Reef The Larger Frameworks Bivalve Reefs of the Cretaceous The Ancient Reefs of the Palaeozoic

6: MINI-SKELETONS

A World Unseen The ‘Ur Animals’ An Amoeba within a Shell Challenging Times Ancient Mysteries and Whirling Dervishes Plankton in Glasshouses The Coccospheres

7: FLYING SKELETONS

Flying Kites Arthropods in the Air From Pterosaurs to Terror Birds The Birds Back to the Land: the Terror Birds Flying Mammals

8: SKELETON ARCHIVES

A Mollusc for all Seasons The Saw-tooth Foraminifera The Return of the Giant Tortoises Keeping Time in the Devonian The Warm Seas of the Ordovician Skeleton Coasts The Long Sleep of the Antarctic A Brief Royal Epilogue

9: FUTURE SKELETONS

Preparation for a Sequel Bones of the Sequel The Next Reef Gap? Designer Skeletons Augmented Bones Do-It-Yourself Skeletons

10: SKELETONS ON ALIEN PLANETS

Eozoön, or the Proto-skeleton That Wasn’t Micro-skeletons on Mars? Living Rocks? Living Stromatolites Martian Stromatolites? Diversifying Extraterrestrial Skeletons

NOTES

Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10

REFERENCES

Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10

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