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Life, an unauthorised biography:

a natural history of the first four thousand million years of life on earth
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HarperCollins, 1997 - Science - 398 pages
This book guides the reader through space, through the earliest signs of life on the rims of volcanoes, the creation of an atmosphere and the myriad forms of planets and animals which could then evolve and be sustained

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Fortey surveys the progress of life over 4 billion years, detailing the developments and kinds of organisms, as well as their effects on and reactions to an ever-changing environment. A ... Read full review

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Richard Fortey is a senior paleontologist at the Natural History Museum in London.

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