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Life

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

1st American ed.
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An edition of Life (1997)

Life

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

1st American ed.
  • 3 Want to read

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 could then be sustained, including the magnificent era of the dinosaurs, and on to the last moment before the debut of Homo sapiens.

Fortey weaves this history out of the most delicate traceries left in rock, stone and earth. He also explains how, on each aspect of nature and life, scientists have reached the understanding we have today, who made the key discoveries, who their opponents were and why certain ideas won.

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Pages
346

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Cover of: Life
Life
April 6, 1998, Flamingo
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Life
April 6, 1998, Flamingo
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Life: a natural history of the first four billion years of life on earth
1998, Alfred A. Knopf, Distributed by Random House
in English - 1st American ed.
Cover of: Life
Life
April 28, 1997, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
in English
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Life
April 28, 1997, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-332) and index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
576.8
Library of Congress
QH366.2 .F69 1998

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 346 p. :
Number of pages
346

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL701143M
Internet Archive
lifenaturalhisto0000fort
ISBN 10
0375401199
LCCN
97049466
OCLC/WorldCat
38002657
Library Thing
176804
Goodreads
1133632

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