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My book touches upon the great oxygenation event, relating it to the production of oil deposits, which we burn at alarming rates: https://impacts.to/downloads/

• chasil 3y ago
  This is actually a very attractive book from a graphical design perspective. The content also looks enticing. Kudos. Edit: this section on the oxidation catastrophe implies that plants (seemingly) grew out of cyanobacteria. They did not. Basic eukaryotes that had a mitochondria came first, then plastids came after, with integration of new organelles. Plants are more evolved than us, from this perspective. "Despite their tiny size, immense collections of cyanobacteria that bloomed across the oceans contributed to planet-wide ecological changes over time. These impacts include: oxygenating the atmosphere, originating plants, producing oil deposits, and energy efficient metabolisms. Cyanobacteria were so successful at taking in carbon dioxide that they narrowly caused their own extinction event. Many other microbes perished, too; however, life that had adapted to use oxygen flourished." You are likely aware that there are (about) seven major classifications of plastids, and chloroplasts are but one. Chromoplasts are the only other that I remember offhand, and all came after the mitochondria. "Cyanobacteria live just about everywhere on Earth that sunlight reaches: cold arctic tundra, Plant cells have an organelle called a chloroplast, which can be traced back to cyanobacteria, genetically." I did not know about the molybdenum. Again, this is a really nice book. I would read it to my kids.