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• Schopf, J. William 1941- [Browse]
• Geologists—United States—Biography [Browse]

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Contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• 1: The Schopf Lineage
• 1.1 Overview
• 1.2 Christian Schopf
• 1.3 Bill's Father's Family
• 1.4 Bill's Mother's Family
• 1.5 City Boy Chicken Chase
• 1.6 Bill's Mother
• 1.7 Bill's Mom Meets TV star Peter Falk
• 1.8 Bill's Father
• 1.9 Family Values
• 1.10 Take-Home Lessons from These Early Years
• 2: Bill Schopf's Schooling and First Year of College
• 2.1 Grade-School
• 2.2 Bill's "Break-in" to the School Gymnasium
• 2.3 Junior High
• 2.4 Columbus (Ohio) North High School
• 2.5 Oberlin College
• 2.6 Bill's One-Night Gig in the Tommy Dorsey Band
• 2.7 First Year Successes (and a Disappointment)
• 2.8 Formative Years Are Indeed "Formative"
• 3: Earth's Early Life - The Quest Begins
• 3.1 Second Year Life-Changer: Darwin's Dilemma
• 3.2 Well-meaning Dissuaders of Bill's Quest
• 3.3 The Roots of Darwin's Theory
• 3.4 Darwin's College Days and the H.M.S. Beagle Expedition
• 3.5 Genesis of the Origin
• 4: The Missing Precambrian Record of Life
• 4.1 A Century of Gestation: 1859-1960s
• 4.2 Forty Years of Turmoil: J.W. Dawson and Eozoön Canadense
• 4.3 The First (Almost) Breakthrough Discoveries: C.D. Walcott
• 4.4 Walcott Meets His Match: A.C. Seward
• 4.5 Beginnings of the Renaissance: 1950s
• 4.6 Discovery of the Mid-Precambrian Gunflint Fossils
• 4.7 Bill's Initial Involvement in the Gunflint Studies
• 4.8 Bill's Understanding of the Beginnings of the Field
• 5: Graduate School and Early Career
• 5.1 First Year of Graduate School
• 5.2 Good Stuff and a Crisis
• 5.3 University of California, Los Angeles
• 5.4 UCLA Department of Geology
• 5.5 Societal Changes
• 6: The 1970s - Lucky, Time and Time Again
• 6.1 NASA's Lunar Sample Preliminary Examination Team: 1969-1971.
• 6.2 Trapped in the India-Pakistan War: 1971
• 6.3 Field Work and a Glimpse of Indian Culture: 1973
• 6.4 Adventures in the USSR - The Cold War and the KGB: 1972-1975
• 6.5 Bill's Friend, "Origin-of-Lifer" A.I. Oparin: 1972-1976
• 6.6 Oparin Teaches UCLA Students: 1976
• 6.7 A.T. Waterman Award: 1977
• 6.8 A Visit to China - The Second Major Life-Changer: 1978
• 6.9 Divorce and Remarriage: 1978-1980
• 7: The 1980s - The PPRG Defines the Field
• 7.1 Precambrian Paleobiology Research Group
• 7.2 American Philosophical Society
• 7.3 What Can Be Learned from This?
• 7.4 UCLA's Honors Program and the Center for the Study of Evolution and the Origin of Life
• 7.5 Teaching and Students at UCLA
• 7.6 Why This "Side-Track" about Teaching?
• 8: This Science Over the Years
• 8.1 Perils of Geological Field Work
• 8.2 The Wonders/Terrors of Geological Field Work
• 8.3 The "Ups" and "Downs" of Science
• 8.4 A Great Controversy in the Science: The Earliest Records of Life
• 8.5 NASA's "August 7th Event" - "Possible Microfossils" from Mars
• 8.6 Interlacing the "Ups" and "Downs"
• 8.7 The Current Status of This Ancient Fossil Controversy
• 8.8 Disparate Philosophies of Science
• 9: Today's Status of This Science
• 9.1 Major Players in the Science
• 9.2 Contributions of the Subdisciplines
• 9.3 How Fossils Are Preserved
• 9.4 New Analytical Techniques: Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy
• 9.5 Raman Spectroscopy
• 9.6 Fluorescence Spectroscopy
• 9.7 Analytical Techniques and the Search for Past Life on Mars
• 9.8 Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry
• 9.9 The Spread (or Lack Thereof) of Knowledge in Science
• 9.10 Analytical Techniques: Perseverance and Source
• 9.11 How has 50 Years of This Science "Articulated" the New Paradigm?
• 9.12 Where Might This Science Go from Here?
• 9.12.1 Changes in Day-Length and UV-Flux Over Geologic Time.
• 9.12.2 Evidence of the "Primordial Soup"
• 9.12.3 Oxygen, Nitrogen, Energy, and Life
• 9.12.4 Microbial Consortia
• 9.12.5 Rates of Evolution
• 9.12.6 A Paleobarometer and Paleothermometer
• 10: Final Comments
• 10.1 Dénouement
• Addendum: Selected Relevant Literature in Chronological Order
• Index.

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ISBN

• 0-429-42707-7
• 0-429-76289-5

OCLC

1066179895

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