Author: Fortey, Richard.
Title: Life, an unauthorised biography. A natural history if the first four thousand million years of life on earth.
Description: London: Harper Collins, 1997 (1st ed.); xiv+399pp., index, bibliography, glossary, 88 bl-wh photographs, boards w. dustwrappers. As new. ¶ author is a senior paleontologist at the Natural History Museum in London. The book "guides us from the barren globe spinning through space, through the very earliest signs of life on the rims of volcano's, the appearnce of cells, the creation of an atmosphere and the myriad forms of plants and animals (...) right up to the first appearance of Homo sapiens." (blurp) "Mr Fortey saya that Darwin's view of the natural world informs his narrative as pervasively as grammar does a novel. His prose, like Darwin's, is spare, confident and unadorned. As his impressive synthesis of evolution unfolds, a distant world is brought to life." The Economist, review, Sept. 6th, 1997.

Keywords: evolutie paleontologie