How did life begin?

It is perhaps the most important question science has ever asked. Over the centuries, the search for an answer has been entwined with some of science's most revolutionary advances, including van Leeuwenhoek's microscope, Darwin's theory of evolution, and Crick and Watson's unveiling of DNA. Now, in an age of genetic engineering and space exploration, some scientists believe they are on the verge of creating life from nonliving

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Examines and explains how life on Earth came to be and how the Earth and life on it developed and evolved throughout time, told through a play with five acts and a prologue.

This extraordinary true story of LUCA, our Last Universal Common Ancestor, the tiny organism that every unique life-form on Earth can be traced back to, breaks down scientific concepts for young readers.

An acclaimed Harvard geologist presents a narrative chronicle of the Earth s 4.6-billion-year evolution that places the environmental crises of today s world in a context that explains the planet s fragile capacity to support life.

"The author of the best-selling Your Inner Fish, now gives us a lively and accessible account of the great transformations in the history of life, that enable us to further understand whether our presence on this planet is an accident or inevitable. The great transformations in the history of life brought about whole scale shifts in how animals live and how their bodies are organized: the evolution of fish to land-living creature, the origin of birds,...