A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Chapters (Paperback, 영국판)
Pan Macmillan | Henry Gee- ISBN : 9781529060584
20,900원
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| 출간일 | 2022-09-15 |
|---|---|
| 구성/판형 | Paperback | 318 pages |
| 크기/정보 | 129 x 197 x 25mm | 234g |
| 상품번호 | 2709633 |
「네이처」의 시니어 에디터로, 누구보다 가까이에서 다양한 연구 성과를 지켜보고 연구 현장을 두루 섭렵한 저자인 헨리 지가 최신의 연구 성과들을 집약하여 46억 년 생명의 역사를 12편의 이야기로 묶어냈다. 지구가 형성되고 생명이 탄생한 순간부터 동물이 출현하고, 척추동물이 육지를 정복하고, 공룡이 하늘로 날아오르고, 나아가 지구 환경에 영향을 미치는 호모 사피엔스가 모습을 드러내기까지의 과정이 책 속에서 생생하게 펼쳐진다.
뿐만 아니라 저자는 생명이 먼 훗날에 어떤 모습으로 진화하고 지구가 어떤 미래를 맞이할지를 조심스럽게 전망하며 지구 생명이 직면할 운명을 예측한다. 이 책은 기이하게 아름다운 에디아카라 생물군과 생명의 다양성이 폭발한 캄브리아기는 물론이고, 생명이 극한의 위기에 몰린 페름기 대멸종과 우주에서 날아든 소행성이 영원할 것만 같았던 공룡의 세상을 끝장낸 쥐라기 멸종까지 지구 생명의 역사에서 가장 중요했던 순간들을 촘촘하게 재구성한다.
뿐만 아니라 저자는 생명이 먼 훗날에 어떤 모습으로 진화하고 지구가 어떤 미래를 맞이할지를 조심스럽게 전망하며 지구 생명이 직면할 운명을 예측한다. 이 책은 기이하게 아름다운 에디아카라 생물군과 생명의 다양성이 폭발한 캄브리아기는 물론이고, 생명이 극한의 위기에 몰린 페름기 대멸종과 우주에서 날아든 소행성이 영원할 것만 같았던 공룡의 세상을 끝장낸 쥐라기 멸종까지 지구 생명의 역사에서 가장 중요했던 순간들을 촘촘하게 재구성한다.
Winner of the Royal Society Science Book.
'Exhilaratingly whizzes through billions of years . . . Gee is a marvellously engaging writer' - The Times
4.6 billion years of the story of life on Earth, in twelve concise chapters. Brief, brilliant and entirely gripping.
For billions of years, Earth was an inhospitably alien place – covered with churning seas, slowly crafting its landscape through volcanic eruptions, the atmosphere in a constant state of chemical flux. And yet, despite facing literally every conceivable setback that living organisms could encounter, life has been extinguished and picked itself up to evolve again.
From that first foray to the spread of early hominids who later became Homo sapiens, life has persisted, undaunted. A (Very) Short History of Life: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Chapters is an enlightening story of survival, of persistence, illuminating the delicate balance within which life has always existed, and continues to exist today. It is our planet like you’ve never seen it before.
Dr Henry Gee presents creatures from ‘gregarious’ bacteria populating the seas to duelling dinosaurs in the Triassic period, to magnificent mammals with the future in their grasp. Life’s evolutionary steps – from the development of a digestive system to the awe of creatures taking to the skies in flight – are conveyed with an up-close intimacy.
'Henry Gee makes the kaleidoscopically changing canvas of life understandable and exciting.' – Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs, and Steel
'Exhilaratingly whizzes through billions of years . . . Gee is a marvellously engaging writer' - The Times
4.6 billion years of the story of life on Earth, in twelve concise chapters. Brief, brilliant and entirely gripping.
For billions of years, Earth was an inhospitably alien place – covered with churning seas, slowly crafting its landscape through volcanic eruptions, the atmosphere in a constant state of chemical flux. And yet, despite facing literally every conceivable setback that living organisms could encounter, life has been extinguished and picked itself up to evolve again.
From that first foray to the spread of early hominids who later became Homo sapiens, life has persisted, undaunted. A (Very) Short History of Life: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Chapters is an enlightening story of survival, of persistence, illuminating the delicate balance within which life has always existed, and continues to exist today. It is our planet like you’ve never seen it before.
Dr Henry Gee presents creatures from ‘gregarious’ bacteria populating the seas to duelling dinosaurs in the Triassic period, to magnificent mammals with the future in their grasp. Life’s evolutionary steps – from the development of a digestive system to the awe of creatures taking to the skies in flight – are conveyed with an up-close intimacy.
'Henry Gee makes the kaleidoscopically changing canvas of life understandable and exciting.' – Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs, and Steel
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