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A (Very) Short History of Life On Earth - 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Chapters (Paperback)
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A (Very) Short History of Life On Earth - 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Chapters (Paperback)
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'A dazzling, beguiling story . . . told at an exhilarating pace'
Literary Review 'Henry Gee makes the kaleidoscopically changing
canvas of life understandable and exciting. Who will enjoy reading
this book? - Everybody!' Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs, and
Steel For billions of years, Earth was an inhospitably alien place
- covered with churning seas, slowly crafting its landscape by way
of incessant volcanic eruptions, the atmosphere in a constant state
of chemical flux. And yet, despite facing literally every
conceivable setback that living organisms could encounter, life has
been extinguished and picked itself up to evolve again. Life has
learned and adapted and continued through the billions of years
that followed. It has weathered fire and ice. Slimes begat sponges,
who through billions of years of complex evolution and adaptation
grew a backbone, braved the unknown of pitiless shores, and sought
an existence beyond the sea. From that first foray to the spread of
early hominids who later became Homo sapiens, life has persisted,
undaunted. A (Very) Short History of Life is an enlightening story
of survival, of persistence, illuminating the delicate balance
within which life has always existed, and continues to exist today.
It is our planet like you've never seen it before. Life teems
through Henry Gee's lyrical prose - colossal supercontinents drift,
collide, and coalesce, fashioning the face of the planet as we know
it today. Creatures are engagingly personified, from 'gregarious'
bacteria populating the seas to duelling dinosaurs in the Triassic
period to magnificent mammals with the future in their (newly
evolved) grasp. Those long extinct, almost alien early life forms
are resurrected in evocative detail. Life's evolutionary steps -
from the development of a digestive system to the awe of creatures
taking to the skies in flight - are conveyed with an alluring,
up-close intimacy.
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