PublishedHarper Collins, October 2011 |
ISBN9780007209866 |
FormatHardcover, 400 pages |
Dimensions24cm × 15.9cm × 3.6cm |
The history of life on Earth is far older -- and far odder -- than many of us realise. In this book, Richard Fortey traces this history not through fossil records, but in the living stories of organisms that have survived nearly unchanged for hundreds of millions of years. They range from humble algal mats dating back almost two billion years to hardy musk oxen, which linger as the last vestiges of Ice Age fauna.
