A (very) short history of life on Earth : 4.6 billion years in 12 chapters
Gee, Henry, 1962-2022
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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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Author:
Gee, Henry, 1962-, author
Imprint:
London : Picador, 2022.
Collation:
318 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2021.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781529060584 (pbk)
Dewey class:
576.83576.8
LC class:
QH361
Local class:
576.83576.8
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
3161585
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