Life: a natural history of the first four billion years of life on earth
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| Rating | : | 4.73 (764 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0002555603 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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So, here we are So, here we are 4,000 million years later Mr. Joe British paleontologist Richard Fortey has written a marvelously concise and erudite historical synopsis of terrestrial life from around 4,000 million years ago, when meteors seeded the planet with the elements, most importantly carbon, that allowed for the evolution of organic molecules, to around 25,000 years ago, when Cro-Magnon. ,000 million years later British paleontologist Richard Fortey has written a marvelously concise and erudite historical synopsis of terrestrial life from around So, here we are 4,000 million years later Mr. Joe British paleontologist Richard Fortey has written a marvelously concise and erudite historical synopsis of terrestrial life from around 4,000 million years ago, when meteors seeded the planet with the elements, most importantly carbon, that allowed for the evolution of organic molecules, to around 25,000 years ago, when Cro-Magnon. ,000 million years ago, when meteors seeded the planet with the elements, most importantly carbon, that allowed for the evolution of organic molecules, to around 25,000 years ago, when Cro-Magnon. Bradley P. Rich said More Interesting as Memoir Than as Science. Like his more recent book Trilobyte, this book is well crafted. For the reader interested in the process of discovery by a scientist, I suspect that this book will satisfy. Sadly, I came to the book in a search for current information about the history of life on earth and was disappointed. The book drifts between stories of the a. "Great Book, Super Writing Style" according to Ann P. Repp. I found this book to be written in a language that can be understood by an amateur at this subject like I am. His way of writing is smooth as velvet and its all easy to read and very entertaining Ann P. Repp
Fortey. Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth is a non-fiction book written by British paleontologist Richard A. It was originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by HarperCollins Publishers, under the title Life: An Unauthorised Biography. Under its various titles it has become a best-seller; according to WorldCat, it is in over a thousand public libraries in the United States alone.. It discusses evolution, biology, the origin of life, and paleontology. Fortey used this book to explain how life has evolved over the last four billion years