Sotvorenie Zemli. Kak zhivye organizmy sozdali nash mir

Esli by ne zhivye suschestva, Zemle byla by ugotovana unylaya uchast' Marsa. Imenno raznye organizmy - ot bakteriy do cvetkovyh rasteniy i mlekopitayuschih - prevratili tret'yu planetu ot Solnca v obitaemyy mir, sozdali ee nyneshnyuyu atmosferu, znachitel'no povliyali na sostav Mirovogo okeana i kamennoy obolochki - litosfery. Nikakie suschestvennye zapasy poleznyh iskopaemyh - ot organicheskih uglya i nefti do, kazalos' by, inertnogo zolota - ne mogli by obrazovat'sya bez vliyaniya zhivyh suschestv. O tom, kak formirovalas' nasha planeta - takaya, kakoy my ee znaem, - kniga Andreya Zhuravleva, paleontologa, doktora biologicheskih nauk, professora kafedry biologicheskoy evolyucii biologicheskogo fakul'teta MGU.