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Earth's Earliest Biosphere: Its Origin and Evolution, J. William Schopf, editor. Princeton University Press; Princeton, New Jersey. 1983. xxv + 543 pp. $93.00 (cloth); $42.50 (paper).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2016

Andrew H. Knoll
Andrew H. Knoll*
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Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
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Paleobiology , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , Spring 1984 , pp. 286 - 292
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