LEADER 03691nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910782658203321 005 20230721004648.0 010 $a0-19-988418-8 010 $a0-19-756225-6 010 $a1-281-86823-X 010 $a9786611868239 010 $a0-19-972108-4 035 $a(CKB)1000000000706144 035 $a(EBL)415254 035 $a(OCoLC)437093292 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000142837 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11143876 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000142837 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10109090 035 $a(PQKB)11443784 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0002341509 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL415254 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10263645 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL186823 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC415254 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000706144 100 $a20080502d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEchoes of life$b[electronic resource] $ewhat fossil molecules reveal about earth history /$fSusan M. Gaines, Geoffrey Eglinton, Ju?rgen Rullko?tter ; scientific illustrations by Florian Rommerskirchen 210 $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (376 p.) 225 1 $aOxford scholarship online 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2009. 311 $a0-19-517619-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 315-339) and index. 327 $aFossil Molecules in Geologic Time; Contents; 1. Molecular Informants: A Changing Perspective of Organic Chemistry; 2. Looking to the Rocks: Molecular Clues to the Origin of Life; 3. From the Moon to Mars: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life; 4. Black Gold: An Alchemist's Guide to Petroleum; 5. Deep Sea Mud: Biomarker Clues to Ancient Climates; 6. More Molecules, More Mud, and the Isotopic Dimension: Ancient Environments Revealed; 7. Microbiologists (Finally) Climb on Board; 8. Weird Molecules, Inconceivable Microbes, and Unlikely Environmental Proxies: Marine Ecology Revised 327 $a9. Molecular Paleontology and Biochemical Evolution10. Early Life Revisited; 11. Thinking Molecularly, Anything Goes: From Mummies to Oil Spills, Doubts to New Directions; Appendix: Biomarkers at a Glance; Glossary; Figure List; Selected Bibliography; Index; A Biomarker-centric Tree of Life 330 8 $aIn 1936 a German chemist identified certain organic molecules in ancient rocks and oils as the fossil remains of chlorophyll, presumably from plants that had lived millions of years in the past. Many years later this insight was revisited and the term biomarker coined to describe fossil molecules whose molecular structures could reveal the presence of otherwise elusive organisms and processesand then, the hunt was on. Echoes of Life is the story of those molecules and how they illuminate the history of the earth and its life. It is also the story of how a few maverick organic chemists and geologists defied the dictates of their disciplines and, at a time when the natural sciences were fragmenting into ever-more-specialised sub-disciplines, reunited chemistry, biology and geology in a common endeavor. 410 0$aOxford scholarship online. 606 $aBiomolecules, Fossil 606 $aBiomolecules 615 0$aBiomolecules, Fossil. 615 0$aBiomolecules. 676 $a572/.33 700 $aGaines$b Susan M$01578456 701 $aEglinton$b G$g(Geoffrey)$01578457 701 $aRullko?tter$b J$01578458 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782658203321 996 $aEchoes of life$93857795 997 $aUNINA