Life - An Unauthorised Biography - A Natural History of the First 4,000,000,000 Years of Life on Earth

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What do any of us know about the history of our planet before the arrival of man? Most of us have a dim impression of a swirling mass of dust solidifying to form a volcanic globe, briefly populated by dinosaurs, then the woolly mammoths, and finally our own hairy ancestors. This book... brilliantly dispels any such lingering notions forever...