A (Very) Short History Of Life On Earth: 4 6 Billion Years In 12 Chapters Henry Gee Picador Αγγλικά Βιβλία General Issues

\ 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 Very Complex Narratives\ - The Times\ Henry Makes Kaleidoscopically Changing Canvas Life Understandable Exciting Who Will Enjoy Reading This Book? Everybody!\ Jared Diamond Author Guns Germs Steelfor Earth Was An Inhospitably Alien Place – Covered With Churning Seas Slowly Crafting Its Landscape By Way Incessant Volcanic Eruptions Atmosphere In Constant State Chemical Flux Yet Despite Facing Literally Every Conceivable Setback That Living Organisms Could Encounter Has Been Extinguished Picked Itself Up Evolve Again Learned Adapted Continued Followed It Weathered Fire Ice Slimes Begat Sponges Evolution Adaptation Grew Backbone Braved Unknown Pitiless Shores Sought Existence Beyond Sea From First Foray Spread Early Hominids Later Became Homo Sapiens Persisted Undaunted (Very) Short History Enlightening Story Survival Persistence Illuminating Delicate Balance Within Which Always Existed Continues Exist Today Our Planet Like You’ve Never Seen Before Teems Gee’s Lyrical Prose Colossal Supercontinents Drift Collide Coalesce Fashioning Face As We Know Creatures Are Engagingly Personified ‘Gregarious’ Bacteria Populating Duelling Dinosaurs Triassic Period Magnificent Mammals Future Their (Newly Evolved) Grasp Those Long Extinct Almost Forms Resurrected Evocative Detail Life’s Evolutionary Steps Development Digestive System Awe Taking Skies Flight Conveyed Alluring Up-Close Intimacy Σελίδες: 336 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0208 Διαστάσεις: 14 5X14 5Cm