A Tribute to Martin D. Brasier: Palaeobiologist and Astrobiologist (April 12,1947–December 16,2014)

Antcliffe J.B. , Callow R.H. , and Brasier M.D. (2014) Giving the early fossil record of sponges a squeeze. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc, 89:972–1004.

Brasier M.D. (2009) Darwin's Lost World: The Hidden History of Animal Life, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.

Brasier M.D. (2013) Secret Chambers: The Inside Story of Cells and Complex Life, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.

Brasier M.D. (2014, May) In search of the earliest signs of life. Oral presentation in Biosignatures across Space and Time, Joint Meeting of the Nordic Network of Astrobiology and the Centre of Geobiology, Bergen, Norway.

Brasier M.D. , Green O.R. , and Shields G. (1997) Ediacaran sponge spicule clusters from south-western Mongolia and the origins of the Cambrian fauna. Geology, 25:303–306.

Brasier M.D. , Green O.R. , Jephcoat A.P. , Kleppe A.K. , Van Kranendonk M.J. , Lindsay J.F. , Steele A. , and Grassineau N.V. (2002) Questioning the evidence for Earth's oldest fossils. Nature, 416:76–81.

Brasier M.D. , Green O.R. , Lindsay J.F. , McLoughlin N. , Steele A. , and Stoakes C. (2005) Critical testing of Earth's oldest putative fossil assemblage from the ∼3.5 Ga Apex Chert, Chinaman Creek, Western Australia. Precambrian Res, 140:55–120.

Brasier M.D. , Green O.R. , Lindsay J.F. , McLoughlin N. , Stoakes C.A. , Brasier A. , and Wacey D. (2011) Earth's oldest putative fossil assemblage from the ∼3.5 Ga Apex Chert, Chinaman Creek, Western Australia: a field and petrographic guide. Geological Survey of Western Australia Record 2011/7, Department of Mines and Petroleum, Government of Western Australia, East Perth, Australia.

Brasier M.D. , Antcliffe J.B. , Saunders M. , and Wacey D. (2015) The Earth's earliest fossils: the changing picture from new approaches and new discoveries. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 112:4859–4864.

Gregory F.J. , Armstrong H.A. , Boomer I. , Gersonde R. , Harding I. , Herrle J.O. , Lazarus D. , Schmidt D.N. , Schoenfeld J. , and Young J.R. (2006) Celebrating 25 years of advances in micropalaeontology: a review. Journal of Micropalaeontology, 25:97–112.

Hazen R. (2005) Genesis: The Scientific Quest for Life's Origins, The National Academies Press, Washington, DC.

Hooke R. (1665) Micrographia, or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies, Martyn & Allestry, London.

Knoll A.H. (2003) Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.

McLoughlin N. , Wilson L.A. , and Brasier M.D. (2008) Growth of synthetic stromatolites and wrinkle structures in the absence of microbes—implications for the early fossil record. Geobiology, 6:95–105.

Noffke N. (2008) The criteria for biogenicity of microbially induced sedimentary structures (MISS) in Archean, sandy deposits. Earth-Science Reviews, 96:173–180.