Life : a natural history of the first four billion years of life on earth /

Richard Fortey guides us from the barren globe spinning in space, through the very earliest signs of life in the sulphurous hot springs and volcanic vents of the young planet, the appearance of cells, the slow creation of an atmosphere and the evolution of myriad forms of plants and animals that cou...

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Huvudupphovsman: Fortey, Richard A.
Materialtyp: Bok
Språk:English
Publicerad: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.
Upplaga:1st American ed.
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300 |a xiii, 346 p. :  |b ill. ;  |c 25 cm. 
505 0 |a 1. The Everlasting Sea -- 2. Dust of Life -- 3. Cells, Tissues, Bodies -- 4. My Animals and Other Families -- 5. Marine Riches -- 6. Landwards -- 7. Silent Forests, Crowded Oceans -- 8. The Great Continent -- 9. Monstrous and Modest -- 10. Theories of the End -- 11. Suckling Success -- 12. Humanity -- 13. Wheels of Chance. 
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500 |a "A Borzoi book"--T.p. verso. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-332) and index. 
650 0 |a Evolution (Biology) 
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