Evolution Earliest life Re: wall chart of history of earth / life

2007-09-04 Thread Wayne Tyson
Thanks Katrina. It looks good, but from the website, I can't exactly tell how simple or complicated it is. What I mean by "simple" is that it sticks to factors that can be reasonably correlated with each other, such as the increase in atmospheric oxygen around the rise of cyanobacteria, and,

Re: Evolution Earliest life Re: wall chart of history of earth / life

2007-09-05 Thread Phil Novack-Gottshall
Hi Wayne and others: Part of the problem is that reconstructing trends in environmental conditions (temperature, pH, O, etc.) are non-trivial and full of complicated (and often cross-cancelling) interrelationships (i.e., pinning one unknown variable requires assumptions about the other unknown