Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth

By Andrew H. Knoll. 2003

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Biomineralization and Evolutionary History (2003, neutral): “In general, Cambrian diversification likely reflects the interplay between genetic possibility and environmental opportunity, including new ecological opportunities introduced by both late Proterozoic increase in atmospheric oxygen tensions and strong carbon cycle perturbation at the Proterozoic-Cam”
THE EDIACARA BIOTA: Neoproterozoic Origin of Animals and Their Ecosystems (2005, background): “…patterns evident through the terminal Neoproterozoic and Cambrian are also consistent with increasing oxygen through this interval (Runnegar 1991, Knoll 2003), implying that postglacial oxygenation may have been a trigger as well as a threshold factor in the appearance of large animals of the…”
THE ROLE AND EVOLUTION OF SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASES IN ALGAE 1 (2005, background): “…GSB, green sulfur bacteria; NHE, normal hydrogen electrode; ROS, reactive oxygen species; SOD, superoxide dismutase The evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis in the early Proterozoic Eon exerted a powerful selective pressure on life (Dismukes et al. 2001, Knoll 2003, Falkowski et al. 2004a).”
The Microbial Engines That Drive Earth's Biogeochemical Cycles (2008, background): “ecology and evolution and upset the hierarchical taxonomic structure that Linnaeus proposed (2).”
GLOBAL MARINE BIODIVERSITY TRENDS (2006, background): “Although the information on ecosystem diversity over geological times is not as good as that on taxonomic diversity, it is clear that the number of marine ecosystems and ways of making a living has increased since the primordial pre-Cambrian ocean (44).”
Phylogeny and Molecular Evolution of the Green Algae (2012, background): “The earliest fossils attributed to green algae date from the Precambrian (ca. 1200 mya) (Tappan, 1980; Knoll, 2003).”
The case for a Neoproterozoic Oxygenation Event: Geochemical evidence and biological consequences (2011, background): “Such high values indicate that the proportion of carbon buried as organic matter was elevated from ca. 850 Ma until ca. 720 Ma, and this has been linked to a general diversification of eukaryotic plankton, which altered the dynamics of organic matter production and decomposition (Knoll, 2003).”
Biological Physics of the Developing Embryo (2005, neutral): “The single-cell organisms that existed before the emergence of multicellularity must have been metabolically active, thermodynamically open, systems, much like presentday cells (the evolution of eukaryotic cells had been under way for more than a billion years before metazoans appeared; Knoll, 2003)”
Climate change: a catalyst for global expansion of harmful cyanobacterial blooms. (2009, background): “Their proliferation during the Precambrian period is largely responsible for the modernday, oxygen-enriched atmosphere, and subsequent evolution of higher plant and animal life (Knoll, 2003).”
Hot‐spring Systems Geobiology: abiotic and biotic influences on travertine formation at Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park, USA (2011, background): “…is to more accurately interpret the record of fossilized micro-organisms (biomarkers; Allen et al., 2000) preserved in ancient rock [Banfield & Nealson, 1997; Agouron, 2001; American Society for Microbiology (ASM), 2001; Knoll, 2003; Konhauser, 2007; Dilek et al., 2008; Ehrlich & Newman, 2009].”
Evolutionary Trajectories and Biogeochemical Impacts of Marine Eukaryotic Phytoplankton (2004, background): “…diversification because the paleontological record of older strata is sparse; molecular biomarkers suggest that both cyanobacteria and at least stem group eukaryotes existed by 2,700 Ma (Brocks et al. 1999, Summons et al. 1999), and the former, at least, may have evolved earlier (Knoll 2003).”
Micro-FTIR spectroscopic signatures of Bacterial lipids in Proterozoic microfossils (2009, background): “Introduction Morphologically preserved microbial fossils provide direct evience for the existence of life in the Precambrian (e.g. Schopf, 992; Knoll, 2003).”
Dynamic Energy Budget Theory for Metabolic Organisation (2005, background): “2 Ga according to [607]), while chlorophytes (including plants) diverged from rhodophytes 1.”
Emergence of a Habitable Planet (2007, background): “…data-based argument that the ice was thin is that the evolutionary record of life on Earth seems unaffected by the Neoproterozoic snowball events (Knoll 2003), which is surprising given that an ice shell thick enough to segregate oceanic and atmospheric CO2 reservoirs would also be thick enough…”