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John Chambers, Jacqueline Mitton. From Dust to Life: The Origin and Evolution of Our Solar System. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014. P. 7.
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Doug Macdougall. Why Geology Matters: Decoding the Past, Anticipating the Future. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. P. 4.
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Doug Macdougall. Nature’s Clocks: How Scientists Measure the Age of Almost Everything. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. P. 58–60.
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Tim Lenton. Earth Systems Science: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, loc. 1297, Kindle.
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Перевод А. Протопопова.
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Веджимайт – паста-спред на основе дрожжевого экстракта, австралийский национальный продукт.
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Как метафоры, так и расчеты здесь взяты из Peter Hoffmann. Life’s Ratchet: How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos. New York: Basic Books, 2012, loc. 238, Kindle.