Life A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth

Name: Life A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth
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ISBN: 9780375702617

ISBN-10: 037570261X

ISBN-13: 9780375702617

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Authors: Richard Fortey

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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "Extraordinary. . . . Anyone with the slightest interest in biology should read this book."--The New York Times Book Review "A marvelous museum of the past four billion years on earth--capacious, jammed with treasures, full of learning and wide-eyed wonder."--The Boston Globe From its origins on the still-forming planet to the recent emergence of Homo sapiens--one of the world's leading paleontologists offers an absorbing account of how and why life on earth developed as it did. Interlacing the tale of his own adventures in the field with vivid descriptions of creatures who emerged and disappeared in the long march of geologic time, Richard…

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List price: $17.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/7/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.20" wide x 7.90" long x 0.86" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Richard Fortey is a senior paleontologist at the Natural History Museum in London.



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgements



The Everlasting Sea



Dust of Life



Cells, Tissues, Bodies



My Animals and Other Families



Marine Riches



Landwards



Silent Forests, Crowded Oceans



The Great Continent



Monstrous and Modest



Theories of the End



Suckling Success



Humanity



Wheels of Chance


Glossary


Suggestions for Further Reading


Index