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A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth

4.6 Billion Years in 12 Chapters

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A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth

Von: Henry Gee
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For billions of years, Earth was an inhospitably alien place - covered with churning seas, slowly crafting its landscape by way of incessant volcanic eruptions, the atmosphere in a constant state of chemical flux. And yet, despite facing literally every conceivable setback that living organisms could encounter, life has been extinguished and picked itself up to evolve again. Life has learned and adapted and continued through the billions of years that followed. It has weathered fire and ice. Slimes begat sponges, who through billions of years of complex evolution and adaptation grew a backbone, braved the unknown of pitiless shores, and sought an existence beyond the sea.

From that first foray to the spread of early hominids, who later became Homo sapiens, life has persisted, undaunted. A (Very) Short History of Life is an enlightening story of survival, of persistence, illuminating the delicate balance within which life has always existed, and continues to exist today. It is our planet like you’ve never seen it before.

Life teems through Henry Gee’s lyrical prose - colossal supercontinents drift, collide and coalesce, fashioning the face of the planet as we know it today. Creatures are engagingly personified, from ‘gregarious’ bacteria populating the seas, to duelling dinosaurs in the Triassic period, to magnificent mammals with the future in their (newly evolved) grasp. Those long-extinct, almost alien early life forms are resurrected in evocative detail. Life’s evolutionary steps - from the development of a digestive system to the awe of creatures taking to the skies in flight - are conveyed with an alluring, up-close intimacy.

©2021 Henry Gee (P)2021 Macmillan Publishers International Limited
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"A dazzling, beguiling story...told at an exhilarating pace." (Literary Review)

"Henry Gee makes the kaleidoscopically changing canvas of life understandable and exciting. Who will enjoy reading this book? - Everybody!" (Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs, and Steel)

"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 of very complex narratives." (The Times)

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Only for absolute beginners - Monotone Speaker

If you never read sth about the history of earth and its lifeforms, this will give you a good overview. Should you hear via audiobook however, you have to make sure, you don't fall asleep thanks to the monotone speaker.
So I recommend, DO NOT BUY the audio version.
The press reviews are quite misleading: I understand that most Journalists are absolute beginners with science so this book suits them. BUT HOW ON EARTH ANYYBODY CAN FIND THIS BOOK FUN ?! Thats totally beyond me.
About 30 years ago, one of my first history books was one about earth's history. I guess that book covered already two 3rds of this "very short history" - having slightly more than 300 pages.
Reading about history has been my hobby since I was a youth and I must say, that I very rarely read / heard a book that bad.

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