| Description |
xiv, 398 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Summary |
"This book guides us from the barren globe spinning through space, through the very earliest signs of life on the rims of volcanoes, the appearance of cells, the creation of an atmosphere and the myriad forms of plants and animals (happily including dinosaurs) which could then evolve and be sustained, right up to the first appearance of homo sapiens. In doing so Richard Fortey ranges across a great multiplicity of scientific disciplines, delicately analysing their findings and their arguments - about the origins of life, the causes of extinctions and the first appearance of man. He also shows us how, on each of these matters, we have reached the understanding that we have, whose the discoveries have been, whose the arguments."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Includes index, bibliography and glossary |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-382) and index |
| Subject |
Evolution (Biology)
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Fossils.
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Life -- Origin.
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Natural history.
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| ISBN |
0002555603 |
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