4.6 billion years of the story of life on Earth, in 52,000 words. Brief, brilliant and entirely gripping.
Dr Henry Gee was born in 1962. He was educated at the universities of Leeds and Cambridge. For more than three decades he has been a writer and editor at the international science journal Nature. His previous books include The Accidental Species: Misunderstandings of Human Evolution; Across The Bridge: Understanding the Origin of the Vertebrates; Deep Time: Cladistics, the Revolution in Evolution; Jacob's Ladder: The History of the Human Genome; The Science of Middle-Earth, and (with Luis V. Rey) A Field Guide to Dinosaurs. He lives in Cromer, Norfolk, with his family and numerous pets.
A scintillating, fast-paced waltz through four billion years of
evolution, from one of our leading science writers . . . His
poetic prose animates the history of life, from the first bacteria
to trilobites to dinosaurs to us. -- Steve Brusatte, University of
Edinburgh paleontologist and Sunday Times bestselling author
of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
Exhilaratingly whizzes through billions of years . . . Gee is a
marvellously engaging writer, juggling humour, precision, polemic
and poetry to enrich his impossibly telescoped account . . .
[making] clear sense out of very complex narratives * The Times
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This is now the best book available about the huge changes in our
planet and its living creatures, over the billions of years of the
Earth's existence . . . Henry Gee makes this kaleidoscopically
changing canvas of life understandable and exciting. Who will
enjoy reading this book? Everybody! -- Jared Diamond, author of
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Henry Gee's whistle-stop account of the story of life (and death -
lots of death) on Earth is both fun and informative. Even
better, it goes beyond the natural human inclination to see
ourselves as special and puts us in our proper place in the cosmic
scheme of things -- John Gribbin
Don't miss this delightful, concise, sweeping masterpiece!
Gee brilliantly condenses the entire, improbable, astonishing
history of life on earth - all 5 billion years - into a charming,
zippy and scientifically accurate yarn. -- Daniel E. Lieberman,
Professor of Biological Sciences, Harvard University
'Gee's prose is so infectiously enthusiastic, and his tone
so accessible, that you'll find yourself racing through as if you
were reading a novel - and you'll never find yourself scrambling
for a good fact to wheel out at an awkward pause in conversation
again.' * Reader's Digest *
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