A (Very) short history of life on earth : 4.6 billion years in 12 chapters (Record no. 297439)
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fixed length control field | 02393nam a22001697a 4500 |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
International Standard Book Number | 9781529060577 |
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
Classification number | 576.8 |
Item number | GEE-S |
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
Personal name | Gee, Henry |
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
Title | A (Very) short history of life on earth : 4.6 billion years in 12 chapters |
Statement of responsibility, etc. | By Henry Gee |
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
Edition statement | 1 |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
Place of publication, distribution, etc. | London, UK : |
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Picador, |
Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2021. |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
Extent | 319P. |
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
Formatted contents note | A song of fire and ice --<br/>Animals assemble --<br/>The backbone begins --<br/>Running aground --<br/>Arise, amniotes --<br/>Triassic Park --<br/>Dinosaurs in flight --<br/>Those magnificent mammals --<br/>Planet of the apes --<br/>Across the world --<br/>The end of prehistory --<br/>The past of the future. |
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
Summary, etc. | For billions of years, Earth was an inhospitably alien place - covered with churning seas, slowly crafting its landscape by way of incessant volcanic eruptions, the atmosphere in a constant state of chemical flux. And yet, despite facing literally every conceivable setback that living organisms could encounter, life has been extinguished and picked itself up to evolve again. Life has learned and adapted and continued through the billions of years that followed. It has weathered fire and ice. Slimes begat sponges, who through billions of years of complex evolution and adaptation grew a backbone, braved the unknown of pitiless shores, and sought an existence beyond the sea. From that first foray to the spread of early hominids who later became Homo sapiens, life has persisted, undaunted. A (Very) Short History of Life is an enlightening story of survival, of persistence, illuminating the delicate balance within which life has always existed, and continues to exist today. It is our planet like you've never seen it before. Life teems through Henry Gee's lyrical prose - colossal supercontinents drift, collide, and coalesce, fashioning the face of the planet as we know it today. Creatures are engagingly personified, from 'gregarious' bacteria populating the seas to duelling dinosaurs in the Triassic period to magnificent mammals with the future in their (newly evolved) grasp. Those long extinct, almost alien early life forms are resurrected in evocative detail. Life's evolutionary steps - from the development of a digestive system to the awe of creatures taking to the skies in flight - are conveyed with an alluring, up-close intimacy. |
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
Topical term or geographic name entry element | Popular science Natural history - general Evolution |
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Koha item type | Book |
Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics | Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics | Processing Center | 23/09/2021 | 576.8 GEE-S | DCB3956 | 30/09/2021 | 30/09/2021 | Book |