Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth – Richard Fortey Beste Prijs

By one of Britain’s most gifted scientists: a magnificently daring and compulsively readable account of life on Earth (from the “big bang” to the advent of man), based entirely on the most original of all sources–the evidence of fossils.
With excitement and driving intelligence, Richard Fortey guides us from the barren globe spinning in space, through the very earliest signs of life in the sulphurous hot springs and volcanic vents of the young planet, the appearance of cells, the slow creation of an atmosph…