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090 $a臺南市立圖書館
100 1 $aGee, Henry,$d1962-
245 12$aA (very) short history of life on Earth :$b4.6 billion years in 12 chapters /$cHenry Gee.
246 30$aHistory of life on Earth
246 30$a4.6 billion years in 12 chapters
246 3 $aFour point six billion years in twelve chapters
260 $aLondon :$bPicador,$cc2021.
300 $a318 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aA song of fire and ice -- Animals assemble -- The backbone begins -- Running aground -- Arise, amniotes -- Triassic Park -- Dinosaurs in flight -- Those magnificent mammals -- Planet of the apes -- Across the world -- The end of prehistory -- The past of the future.
520 $aIn the tradition of E.H. Gombrich, Stephen Hawking, and Alan Weisman-an entertaining and uniquely informed narration of Life's life story. In the beginning, Earth was an inhospitably alien place-in constant chemical flux, covered with churning seas, crafting its landscape through incessant volcanic eruptions. Amid all this tumult and disaster, life began. The earliest living things were no more than membranes stretched across microscopic gaps in rocks, where boiling hot jets of mineral-rich water gushed out from cracks in the ocean floor. Although these membranes were leaky, the environment within them became different from the raging maelstrom beyond. These havens of order slowly refined the generation of energy, using it to form membrane-bound bubbles that were mostly-faithful copies of their parents-a foamy lather of soap-bubble cells standing as tiny clenched fists, defiant against the lifeless world. Life on this planet has continued in much the same way for millennia, adapting to literally every conceivable setback that living organisms could encounter and thriving, from these humblest beginnings to the thrilling and unlikely story of ourselves. In A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth, Henry Gee zips through the last 4.6 billion years with infectious enthusiasm and intellectual rigor. Drawing on the very latest scientific understanding and writing in a clear, accessible style, he tells an enlightening tale of survival and persistence that illuminates the delicate balance within which life has always existed.
650 0$aAnimals, Fossil.$2fast
650 0$aAnimals$xHistory.
650 0$aEvolution (Biology)$xHistory.
650 0$aLife$xOrigin.
653 $a知識性
653 $a科技創新