A (very) short history of life on Earth : 4.6 billion years in 12 pithy chapters /
"In the tradition of E.H. Gombrich, Stephen Hawking, and Alan Weisman-an entertaining and uniquely informed narration of Life's life story. In the beginning, Earth was an inhospitably alien place-in constant chemical flux, covered with churning seas, crafting its landscape through incessan...
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Picador,
2021.
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Table of Contents:
- A song of fire and ice
- Animals assemble
- The backbone begins
- Running aground
- Arise, amniotes
- Triassic Park
- Dinosaurs in flight
- Those magnificent mammals
- Planet of the apes
- Across the world
- The end of prehistory
- The past of the future.