Biological innovations and the sedimentary record.

Abstract

Includes the invention of oxygen-liberating photosynthesis, those of iron oxidation and of the other chemolithotrophic activities of bacteria, the development of metazoans, the invention of burrowing, the evolution of calcareous and of siliceous skeletons, the colonization of the lands, the appearance of calcareous skeletons in the plankton, the appearance of siliceous skeletons in the phytoplankton, the invention of flowers, and the evolution of conceptual thought.-from Author