Peter D. Ward
（2006年10月刊行，The National Academies Press，ISBN:0309100615）
【目次】
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
1. Respiration and the Body Plans of Animal Life 9
2. Oxygen Through Time 31
3. Evolving Respiratory Systems as a Cause of the Cambrian Explosion 51
4. The Ordovician : Cambrian Explosion Part II 81
5. The Silurian-Devonian : How an Oxygen Spike Allowed the First Conquest of Land 89
6. The Carboniferous-Early Permian : High Oxygen, Fires, and Giants 111
7. The Permian Extinction and the Evolution of Endothermy 133
8. The Triassic Explosion 159
9. The Jurassic : Dinosaur Hegemony in a Low-Oxygen World 199
10. The Cretaceous Extinction and the Rise of Large Mammals 223
11. Should We Fear the Oxygen Future? 229
References 237
Appendix 261
Index 265
