epub | 17.84 MB | English | Isbn:0593132882 | Author: Thomas Halliday | Year: 2022
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"A kaleidoscopic and evocative journey into deep time" (Andrea Wulf, author of The Invention of Nature), from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microbial life 550 million years ago, by a brilliant young paleobiologist
"One of those rare books that's both deeply informative and daringly imaginative."-Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White SkyThe past is past, but it does leave clues, and Thomas Halliday has used cutting-edge science to decipher them more completely than ever before. In Otherlands, Halliday makes sixteen fossil sites burst to life on the page.
This book is an exploration of the Earth as it used to exist, the changes that have occurred during its history, and the ways that life has found to adapt―or not. It takes us from the savannahs of Pliocene Kenya to watch a python chase a group of australopithecines into an acacia tree; to a cliff...
Category:Nonfiction, Science, History, Nature, Biology, Palaeontology, Natural History