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"In the retitled paperback edition of his book What on Earth Evolved?, Christopher Lloyd leads us on an extraordinary journey, from the birth of life to the present day, as he explains, in a jargon-free way, the phenomenon we call "life on Earth." Lloyd starts with the Earth "before humans," when lo... Full description
Table of Contents:
- Before humans
- On viruses
- On simple cells
- On symbiosis
- On sea life
- On pioneers of the land
- On fish that came ashore
- On biodiversity
- On the rise of reason
- After humans
- On agriculture
- On material wealth
- On drugs
- On companionship
- On beauty
- On rivalry
- The ladder of life: a table of the top 100 species ranked in order of overall impact
- Postscript: thirty species that nearly made it!