Description
<p><b>Contents</b></p><p>1. About This Book</p><p>2. Our Bedroom</p><p>3. Microbes</p><p>4. Protists</p><p>5. Fungi</p><p>6. Animals</p><p>7. Dry Land </p><p>8. Lichens</p><p>9. Plants</p><p>10. Arthropods on Land</p><p>11. Vertebrates</p><p>12. Amphibians</p><p>13. Proto-Mammals</p><p>14. Dinosaurs</p><p>15. Pterosaurs</p><p>16. Crocodiles</p><p>17. Birds</p><p>18. Mammals</p><p>19. From Monkeys to the Missing Link</p><p>20. The Line to Homo Sapiens</p><p>21. Neandertals</p><p>22. Why Do We Look the Way We Look?</p><p>23. The San, Formerly Known as Bushmen</p><p>24. Gaia’s Rule One: Find a Source of Energy</p><p>25. Gaia’s Rule Two: Protect Yourself</p><p>26. Gaia’s Rule Three: Reproduce</p><p>27. The Present</p><p>28. The Future </p><p>Coda</p><p>Acknowledgments</p><p></p>
Reviews
“Life comes in countless variations, yet all are based on the same biological principles. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas loves them all—from lichens to fungi and from crocodiles to primates—and puts us on a time machine to go back to the turns evolution has taken, many of them surprising, and one of them leading to us.”
—Frans de Waal, author of Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?