A (Very) Short History of Life On Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Chapters

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These small, swift creatures with forward-facing eyes, inclined to curiosity and exploration, would eventually give rise to Homo sapiens. As more fish developed and began to form groups, there were three groups of bony fish, one of which became extinct, but another went on to become a set of animals that would move from sea and water onto land. You'll find almost all the creatures mentioned in "live representations" there and have the most natural choice of personal selection, which one you want to see and learn more about!

Ganz ähnlich muntert Gee seine Leser mit den letztzen Worten seines Buchs auf: "Deshalb verzagt nicht. They would eventually become extinct at the end of the Permian age period, some 252 million years ago.Stuk voor stuk boeiende hoofdstukken en gezien de geringe omvang en de veelheid aan informatie is dit een boek dat ik om de paar jaar eens wil herlezen.

To the earliest life, which had evolved in an ocean and beneath an atmosphere essentially without free oxygen, it spelled environmental catastrophe.

Some even experimented with multicellular life, such as the 1,200-million-year-old seaweed Bangiomorpha26 and the approximately 900-million-year-old fungus Ourasphaira. Finally, after 4 1/2 billion years of mindless tumult, the Earth gave birth to a species that has become aware of itself. Despite the billions of years covered in this book, its chapters are surprisingly short, comprised of still-shorter niblets of interesting information sometimes punctuated with amusing observations or descriptions. By the end of the last age, 15,000,000 years ago, there had been many different species or types of hominoids, but only one ended up surviving the last ice age and that existence was brutal and harsh.

As described on the cover, this is a very concise history of the forming of the Earth and the various ages it went through; including the evolution of life and the creatures we now know today (don't worry, the dinosaurs are in here too). The first time I read it, it took me a while as I made the point of looking up on my phone every creature mentioned, and I recommend doing that too. Even the earliest examples of Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens are found no more than 300,000 or so years ago.Each eon contains a number of 'eras' of 100-200 million years each, of which the most recent (and current) is the Cenozoic Era. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. As the Cambrian period occurred, trilobites, which were anthropoids, and had jointed limbs began to emerge. 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.