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Southwood's readable environmental history of life on earth

The Story of Life


Richard Southwood
264 pages, b/w illus, figs, maps.
Oxford University Press
 
Softcover | 2003 | £12.99 | approx. $21/€16

#141055 | ISBN-10: 0198607865
In recounting the story of life from the origin of the earth to the present against a background of the world's changing climate and geology, Southwood reveals how evolution has driven and shaped unpredictable environmental forces, leading to five major and many lesser extinction events and creating new patterns of life.
'This remarkable book succeeds, within less than 300 pages, in summarizing everything essential about all living creatures for more than three billion years.' Jared Diamond
'Extremely few living scientists would be able to cover the entire history of life authoritatively, with wisely chosen examples and principles, presented in lucid prose, and all in fewer than 260 well-illustrated pages.' E O Wilson
 
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