Life's engines : How microbes made earth habitable

The marvelous microbes that made life on Earth possible and support our very existenceFor almost four billion years, microbes had the primordial oceans all to themselves. The stewards of Earth, these organisms transformed the chemistry of our planet to make it habitable for plants, animals, and us....

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Auteur principal: Falkowski, Paul G.
Format: Livre numérique
Langue:Anglais
Publié: Princeton : Princeton University Press 2023.
Paris : Cyberlibris
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Edition sous un autre format:• Life's engines, How microbes made earth habitable, Paul G. Falkowski, 2023, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1 vol. (XIV-205 p.), Princeton Science Library, 978-0-691-24768-7
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