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Gee, Henry, 1962-
Subjects
Evolution (Biology) -- History.
Life sciences.
Life -- Origin.
Earth (Planet) -- Age.
Earth (Planet) -- Origin.
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Gee, Henry, 1962-
Evolution (Biology) -- History.
Life sciences.
Life -- Origin.
Earth (Planet) -- Age.
Earth (Planet) -- Origin.
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A (
very
)
short
history
of
life
on
Earth
:
4
.6
billion
years
in
12
pithy
chapters
/ Henry Gee.
by
Gee, Henry, 1962-
St. Martin's Press, 2021.
Call #:
576.83 G297v
Subjects
Evolution (Biology) --
History
.
Life
sciences.
Life
-- Origin.
Earth
(Planet) -- Age.
Earth
(Planet) -- Origin.
ISBN:
9781250276650 (hc)
Alternate title:
4
.6
billion
years
in
12
pithy
chapters
Four point six
billion
years
in twelve
pithy
chapters
Edition:
1st U.S. ed.
Description:
vi, 280 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Notes:
"Originally published in the United Kingdom by Picador."
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-272) and index.
Summary:
"In the tradition of E.H. Gombrich, Stephen Hawking, and Alan Weisman-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, using it to form membrane-bound bubbles that were mostly-faithful copies of their parents-a foamy lather of soap-bubble cells standing as tiny clenched fists, defiant against the lifeless world.
Life
on this planet has continued in much the same way for millennia, adapting to literally every conceivable setback that living organisms could encounter and thriving, from these humblest beginnings to the thrilling and unlikely story of ourselves. In A (
Very
)
Short
History
of
Life
on
Earth
, Henry Gee zips through the last
4
.6
billion
years
with infectious enthusiasm and intellectual rigor. Drawing on the
very
latest scientific understanding and writing in a clear, accessible style, he tells an enlightening tale of survival and persistence that illuminates the delicate balance within which
life
has always existed"--Publisher.
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