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List of contributors; Preface; Part I: 1. Geology and paleobiology ofthe Archean Earth; 2. Geological evolution of the Proterozoic Earth; 3.Proterozoic biochemistry; 4. Proterozoic atmosphere and ocean; 5. Proterozoicand selected early Cambrian microfossils: prokaryotes and protists; 6. Modernmat-building microbial communities: a key to the interpretation ofProterozoic stromatolitic communities; 7. Proterozoic and earliest Cambriancarbonaceous remains, trace and body fossils; 8. The Proterozoic-earlyCambrian evolution of metaphytes and metazoans; 9. Molecular phylogenetics,molecular paleontologym and the Proterozoic fossil record; 10.Biostratigraphy and paleobiology of the Proterozoic; 11. Biotic diversity andrates of evolution during Proterozoic and earliest Phanerozoic time; 12. Apaleogeographic model for Vendian and Cambrian time; 13. Evolution of theProterozoic biosphere: benchmarks, tempo and mode; Part II: 14. Geographicand geologic data for PPRG rock samples; 15. Flow chart and processingprocedures for rock samples; 16. Procedures of whole rock and kerogenanalysis; 17. Abundances and isotopic compositions of carbon and sulphurspecies in whole rock and kerogen samples; 18. Procedures for analysis ofextractable organic matter; 19. Composition of extractable organic matter;20. Modern mat-building microbial communities: methods of investigation andsupporting data; 21. Construction and use of geological, geochemical andpaleobiological databases; 22. Proterozoic and selected early Cambrianmicrofossils and microfossil-like objects; 23. Described taxa of Proterozoicand selected earliest Cambrian Carbonaceous remains, trace and body fossils;24. Atlas of representative Proterozoic microfossils; 25. Informal revisedclassifications of Proterozoic microfossils; 26. Models for Vendian-Cambrianbiotic diversity and for Proterozoic atmospheric and ocean chemistry; 27.Glossary of technical terms; References cited; Subject index; Index togeologic units; Taxonomic index.