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  • Richard Fortey spent his working life in palaeontology at the Natural He has presented many television programmes across the BBC and other channels.
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  • A magisterial exploration of the natural history of the first four thousand million years of life on and in the earth, by one of Britain's most dazzling.

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    Life: an Unauthorized Biography

    A magisterial exploration of the natural history of the first four thousand million years of life on and in the earth, by one of Britain’s most dazzling science writers. What do any of us know about the history of our planet before the arrival of man? Most of us have a dim impression of a swirling mass of dust solidifying to form a volcanic globe, briefly populated by dinosaurs, then by woolly mammoths and finally by our own hairy ancestors. This book, aimed at the curious and intelligent but perhaps mildly uninformed reader, brilliantly dispels such lingering notions forever. At the end of the book we understand the complexity of the history of life on earth, and the complexity of how it has come to be understood, as, perhaps, from no other single volume. The result is enthralling.

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    ‘This is not a book for people who like science books. It is a book for people who love books, and life… [Fortey] has written a wonderful book.’ Tim Radford, Guardian ‘Read this book because it is, indeed, the best natural history of the first four billion years of life on earth.’ John Gribbin, Sunday Times ‘Fortey writes beautifully and this is a wonderful biography of rock a

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    A magisterial exploration of the natural history of the first four thousand million years of life on and in the earth, by one of Britain’s most dazzling science writers.

    What do any of us know about the history of our planet before the arrival of man? Most of us have a dim impression of a swirling mass of dust solidifying to form a volcanic globe, briefly populated by dinosaurs, then by woolly mammoths and finally by our own hairy ancestors. This book, aimed at the curious and intelligent but perhaps mildly uninformed reader, brilliantly dispels such lingering notions forever. At the end of the book we understand the complexity of the history of life on earth, and the complexity of how it has come to be understood, as, perhaps, from no other single volume. The result is enthralling.

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    CONTRIBUTORS: Richard ForteyEAN: 9780006384205COUNTRY: United KingdomPAGES: WEIGHT: 310 gHEIGHT: 198 cm

    PUBLISHED BY: HarperCollins PublishersDATE PUBLISHED: CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / General, Discipline / Prevailing, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Alter, SCIENCE / Paleontology, Branch / Abnormal HistoryWIDTH: 129 cmSPINE:

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