Henry Gee

A (Very) Short History of Life On Earth

4.6 Billion Years in 12 Chapters

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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: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 140mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 448g
• ISBN-13: 9781529060560
• ISBN-10: 1529060567
• Artikelnr.: 60997484

Autorenporträt

Henry Gee is a senior editor at Nature and the author of several books, including The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire, Jacob's Ladder, In Search of Deep Time, The Science of Middle-Earth, The Accidental Species, and A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth, which won the 2022 Royal Society Science Book Prize. He has appeared on BBC television and radio and NPR's All Things Considered, and has written for The Guardian, The Times, and BBC Science Focus. He lives in Cromer, Norfolk, England, with his family and numerous pets.

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