(PDF Download) A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters Writen By Henry Gee

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A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters

By : Henry Gee

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"[A]n exuberant romp through evolution, like a modern-day Willy Wonka of genetic space. Gee?s grand tour enthusiastically details the narrative underlying life?s erratic and often whimsical exploration of biological form and function.? ?Adrian Woolfson, The Washington PostIn the tradition of Richard Dawkins, Bill Bryson, and Simon Winchester?An entertaining and uniquely informed narration of Life's life story.In the beginning, Earth was an inhospitably alien place?in constant chemical flux, covered with churning seas, crafting its landscape through incessant volcanic eruptions. Amid all this tumult and disaster, life began. The earliest living things were no more than membranes stretched across microscopic gaps in rocks, where boiling hot jets of mineral-rich water gushed out from cracks in the ocean floor.Although these membranes were leaky, the environment within them became different from the raging maelstrom beyond. These havens of order slowly refined the generation of energy,

Book Detail :

Author : Henry Gee

Pages : 280 pages

Publisher : St. Martin's Press

Language : eng

ISBN-10 : 1250276659

ISBN-13 : 9781250276650

 

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