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Здесь и далее в книге под Америкой подразумевается часть света, объединяющая Северную и Южную Америку.
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David Christian, Cynthia Stokes Brown, Craig Benjamin. Big History. P. 46.
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Andrew Wulf. The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science. London: John Murray, 2015, loc. 2368, Kindle.
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Jeffrey Bennett, Seth Shostak. Life in the Universe. 3rd ed. Boston: Addison-Wesley, 2011. P. 130.
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Robert M. Hazen. Evolution of Minerals // Scientific American, March 2010. P. 63.
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Jeffrey Bennett, Seth Shostak. Life in the Universe. P. 134.
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David Grinspoon. Earth in Human Hands: Shaping Our Planet’s Future. N. Y.: Grand Central Publishing, 2016. P. 204.
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Обсуждение этих механизмов см.: Ibid. P. 44 et sec.
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Peter Ward and Joe Kirschvink. A New History of Life: The Radical New Discoveries About the Origins and Evolution of Life on Earth. London: Bloomsbury Press, 2016. P. 64.
