Oxygen and the Evolution of Life Viola Eckelt PRIMA 2000 was the third

PRIMA 2000 was the third in the series of Paci c Rim International Workshops on Multi-Agents

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Oxygen and the Evolution of Life Viola Eckelt PRIMA 2000 was the thirdThis book describes the interlaced histories of life and oxygen. It opens with the generation of oxygen in ancient stars and its distribution to newly formed planets like the Earth. Free O2 was not available on the early Earth, so the first life forms had to be anaerobic. Life introduced free O2 into the environment through the evolution of photosynthesis, which must have been a disaster for many anaerobes. Others found ways to deal with the toxic