Creation of the Earth: how living organisms created our world

If not for living creatures, the land would have been destined for the dull fate of Mars. It was different organisms - from bacteria to flowering plants and mammals - turned the third planet from the sun into the inhabited world, created its current atmosphere, significantly influenced the composition of the oceans and the stone membrane - the lithosphere. No significant reserves of minerals - from organic coal and oil to seemingly inert gold - could form without the influence of living beings. About how our planet was formed - the way we know it is the book of Andrei Zhuravlev, Paleontologist, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor of the Department of Biological Evolution of the Faculty of Biological Faculty of Moscow State University