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Echoes of Life: What Fossil Molecules Reveal about Earth History (1st Edition) by Susan M. Gaines, Geoffrey Eglinton, Jurgen Rullkotter Hardcover, 376 Pages, Published 2008 ISBN-10: 0-19-517619-7 / 0195176197 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-517619-3 / 9780195176193 In 1936 a German chemist identified certain organic molecules that he had extracted from ancient rocks and oils as the fossil remains of chlorophyll--presumably from plants that had lived and died millions of years in the past. It was another twenty-five years before this insight was developed and t |