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![]() Unlike other recent offerings (e.g., Snowball Earthīy Gabrielle Walker and In the Blink of an Eyeīy Andrew Parker), Knoll is not uncomfortable with taking a middle ground, claiming that conclusive answers are not yet within our grasp. His evenhanded explanations draw heavily from the work he, his graduate students and his collaborators from around the world have performed. ![]() He addresses two of the biggest questions of biology and paleontology-how did life begin and why was there an explosion of life forms at the start of the Cambrian Era. In a book so well written that nonspecialists and specialists alike will find much to savor, he captures both the excitement of scientific discovery and the intricacies of scientific interpretation. ![]() Knoll, a paleontologist at Harvard, has spent most of his life examining and making sense of microscopic Precambrian fossils from around the world. ![]()
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