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The 1785 Abstract of James Hutton’s Theory of the Earth. C.Y. Craig, editor. 1997. Edinburgh University Press.
Darwin and the Beagle. Alan Moorhead. 1983. Crescent Press.
Measuring Eternity: The Search for the Beginning of Time. Martin Gorst. 2002. Broadway Publisher.
On the Origins of Species. Charles Darwin. 1964. Harvard University Press.
Principles of Geology. Charles Lyell. 1990. University of Chicago Press.
Seashell on a Mountaintop: How Nicolas Steno Solved an Ancient Mystery and Created a Science of the Earth. Alan Cutler. 2004.
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“The discovery of microorganisms by Robert Hooke and Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, fellows of the Royal Society.” H. Gest. Notes Rec. R. Soc. Lond. (2004) 58: 187–201.doi: 10.1098/rsnr.2004.0055.
Microbe Hunters. Paul de Kruif. 1926. Harvest Press.
Micrographia – Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon. Robert Hooke. 1665. Reprinted 2010.
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The Age of Everything: How Science Explores the Past. Mathew Hedman. 2007. University of Chicago Press.
Darwin’s Lost World: The Hidden History of Animal Life. Martin Brasier. 2010. Oxford University Press.
Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth. Andrew Knoll. 2004. Princeton University Press.
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Aquatic Photosynthesis. P.G. Falkowski and J.A. Raven. 2007. Princeton University Press.
Life’s Ratchet: How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos. Peter M. Hoffmann. 2012. Basic Books.
“There’s plenty of room at the bottom: An invitation to enter a new field of physics.” R.P. Feynman. 1960. Онлайн-версия http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/feynman.html.
What Is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell. Edwin Schrodinger. 1944. Cambridge University Press. Онлайн-версия http://whatislife.stanford.edu/LoCo_files/What-is-Life.pdf.
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Cradle of Life: The Discovery of Earth’s Earliest Fossils. J. William Schopf. 1999. Cambridge University Press.
Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet. Oliver Morton. 2007. HarperCollins.
Oxygen: A Four Billion Year History. D.E. Canfield. 2014. Princeton University Press.
Oxygen, The Molecule That Made the World. Nick Lane. 2002. Oxford University Press.
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Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution. Lynn Margulis and Dorian Sagan. 1997. University of California Press.
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Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher. Lewis Thomas. 1978. Penguin Press.
Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life. Nick Lane. 2005. Oxford University Press.
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History. Stephen J. Gould. 1989. W.W. Norton.
Глава 9
The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler. Thomas Hager. 2008. Three Rivers Press.
From Hand to Mouth: The Origins of Human Language. Michael C. Corballis. 2003. Princeton University Press.
The Genesis of Germs: The Origin of Diseases and the Coming Plagues. Alan L. Gillen. 2007. Master Books.
Microbes and Society. Benjamin Weeks. 2012. Jones and Bartlett Learning.
Глава 10
The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA. James D. Watson. 1976. Scribner Classics.
Introduction to Systems Biology: Design Principles of Biological Circuits. Uri Alon. 2006. Chapman and Hall/CRC Press.
Life at the Speed of Light. J. Craig Venter. 2013. Viking.
Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves. George Church and Edward Regis. 2014. Basic Books.
Rosalind Franklin and DNA. Anne Sayre. 1975. W.W. Norton.
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How to Find a Habitable Planet. James Kasting. 2010. Princeton University Press.
The Life of Super-Earths: How the Hunt for Alien Worlds and Artificial Cells Will Revolutionize Life on Our Planet. Dimitar Sasselov. 2012. Basic Books.
Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe. Peter Ward and Donald Brownlee. 2000. Copernicus Books.