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Article: Snowball Earth: the Story of the Global Catastrophe that Spawned Life as We Know it.(Book Review)
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- Geoscience Canada
- Article date:
- September 1, 2004
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Snowball Earth: the Story of the Global Catastrophe that Spawned Life as We Know it by Gabrielle Walker Crown Publishers. N. Y, 2003 CDN$37.95, hardcover. ISBN 0-609-60973-4
This book recounts the development of the Snowball Earth theory from its beginnings up to press time and even beyond (several articles in print or progress are cited!). It is pitched at the layperson's level and close to half of the text is devoted to the lives and motivations of the scientists involved. Most readers of this review will know the main Snowball protagonist--the GSC's former Precambrian virtuoso, Paul Hoffman. Many will have heard him in his present role of Harvard professor as ...