Skeletons by Jan Zalasiewicz (.ePUB)

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Skeletons: The Frame of Life by Jan Zalasiewicz, Mark Williams
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Overview: Over half a billion years ago life on earth took an incredible step in evolution, when animals learned to build skeletons. Using many different materials, from calcium carbonate and phosphate, and even silica, to make shell and bone, they started creating the support structures that are now critical to most living forms, providing rigidity and strength. Manifesting in a vast variety of forms, they provided the framework for sophisticated networks of life that fashioned the evolution of Earth’s oceans, land, and atmosphere. Within a few tens of millions of years, all of the major types of skeleton had appeared. Skeletons enabled an unprecedented array of bodies to evolve, from the tiniest seed shrimp to the gigantic dinosaurs and blue whales. The earliest bacterial colonies constructed large rigid structures – stromatolites – built up by trapping layers of sediment, while the mega-skeleton that is the Great Barrier Reef is big enough to be visible from space.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational

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