Henry Gee

A (Very) Short History of Life On Earth

4.6 Billion Years in 12 Chapters

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

4.6 billion years of the story of life on Earth, in 52,000 words. Brief, brilliant and entirely gripping.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pan Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 91299
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 140mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 450g
• ISBN-13: 9781529060560
• ISBN-10: 1529060567
• Artikelnr.: 60997484

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: A Song of Fire and Ice
Chapter 2: Animals Assemble
Chapter 3: The Backbone Begins
Chapter 4: Running Aground
Chapter 5: Arise, Amniotes
Chapter 6: Triassic Park
Chapter 7: Dinosaurs in Flight
Chapter 8: Those Magnificent Mammals
Chapter 9: Planet of The Apes
Chapter 10: Across the World
Chapter 11: The End of Prehistory
Chapter 12:The Past of The Future
Epilogue
Further Reading
Acknowledgements
Notes

Rezensionen

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