Sotvorenie Zemli: Kak zhivye organizmy sozdali nash mir

If not for living beings, the Earth would have been destined for the dismal fate of Mars. It was various organisms - from bacteria to flowering plants and mammals - that turned the third planet from the Sun into a habitable world, created its current atmosphere, significantly influenced the composition of the World Ocean and the stone shell - the lithosphere. No significant reserves of minerals - from organic coal and oil to seemingly inert gold - could be formed without the influence of li...