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This.book.is.brilliant.
The book's purpose is to examine life---and not in the philosophical way. It leads us through the living world, from cyanobacteria to mammoths, in a beautiful, back-and-forth-in-time journey. There is an immense amount to be learned in here; if you ever were curious about trilobites, or jellyfish, or sulfurophilic bacteria, this book is a fantastic way to suck down a huge amount of information all at once.
To top it off, Fortey is an incredibly gifted writer; this book had ...more
The book's purpose is to examine life---and not in the philosophical way. It leads us through the living world, from cyanobacteria to mammoths, in a beautiful, back-and-forth-in-time journey. There is an immense amount to be learned in here; if you ever were curious about trilobites, or jellyfish, or sulfurophilic bacteria, this book is a fantastic way to suck down a huge amount of information all at once.
To top it off, Fortey is an incredibly gifted writer; this book had ...more
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