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Life : an unauthorised biography : a natural history of the first four thousand million years of life on Earth / Richard Fortey.
Record no.:
1605
Author:
Fortey, R. A. (Richard A.);
Publisher:
London :: Folio Society,
Year:
c2008.
Description:
x, 379 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Subject:
Evolution (Biology);
Life - Origin.;
Notes:
Nagle Library copy ex dono Adrian Diethelm, Rector. Previously published: London : HarperCollins, 1997, and in New York : Alfred A. Knoph, 1998 as Life : a natural history of the first four billion years of life on Earth. This edition follows the text of the 1998 HarperCollins Flamingo paperback edition, with minor emendations, and includes a new foreword by the author. Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-356) and index.
Type:
Monograph
Abstract:
1.

The Everlasting Sea --

2.

Dust of Life --

3.

Cells, Tissues, Bodies --

4.

My Animals and Other Families --

5.

Marine Riches --

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Landwards --

7.

Silent Forests,
Crowded Oceans --

8.

The Great Continent --

9.

Monstrous and Modest --

10.

Theories of the End --

11.

Suckling Success --

12.

Humanity --

13.

Wheels of Chance.
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