Sinopsis de A (VERY) SHORT HISTORY OF LIFE ON EARTH : 4.6 BILLION YEARS IN 12 CHAPTERS
WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2022'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'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 SteelFor 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.