Evolution: The Story of Life
Evolution recreates the 3.5-billion-year story of life on Earth in stunning detail through vivid full-color illustrations and graphics, the latest scientific information, and hundreds of photographs. At the heart of the book is an astonishing, beautifully detailed panorama by renowned illustrator Peter Barrett that, in 100 double-page site reconstructions, offers a freeze-frame view of the communities—from microbes to humankind—that have lived on our planet's continents and in its oceans....
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"Palmer's scholarship is up to date and the text passages are highly appropriate. He has a sense for a good story and good science as well. This book is a prodigious effort, not least in the artwork, but also in the assembly of photos and illustrations, and of course the text."—Kevin Padian, University of California, Berkeley Library Journal Perhaps the most difficult concept to grasp in evolutionary theory is the massive time frames against which it occurs. Published to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, this volume illustrates approximately six million years of evolutionary history on Earth in 100 full-color double-page spreads. With an impressive density of information, this book is much more than just a checklist of facts. Natural history illustrator Barrett's reconstructions of the natural histories of over 100 major fossil sites—from the well-known Burgess Shale in Canada to more remote places like Graphite Peak in Antarctica—bring distant epochs to life in sequential "screen grabs." Combined with a detailed section on classifications and species indexes, as well as several topical fold-out sections and time lines, this serves equally well for reference and browsing. An excellent narrative companion read would be Richard Dawkins's The Ancestors' Tale, which is a backward journey through evolution. VERDICT While more of a look-it-up than read-it book, this beautiful volume is worthy of any collector's coffee table. Recommended for natural history and reference collections. [For more Darwin titles, see Sapp's roundup, "Charles Darwin at 200," LJ 12/08.—Ed.]—Gregg Sapp, Evergreen State Coll. Lib., Olympia, WA\\
\ From Barnes & NobleThere's no bigger story on the planet than the evolution of life on earth. This 3.5 million-year epic unfolds on the pages of this aptly large coffee-table cover through a pairing of Douglas Palmer's informative, accessible text and 100 double-page color pictures by famed natural history illustrator Peter Barrett. Evolution: The Story of Life was produced in association with the Natural History Museum in London and is published to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of his landmark On the Origin of Species. A gift for the whole family.\ \ \ \ \ Library JournalPerhaps the most difficult concept to grasp in evolutionary theory is the massive time frames against which it occurs. Published to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, this volume illustrates approximately six million years of evolutionary history on Earth in 100 full-color double-page spreads. With an impressive density of information, this book is much more than just a checklist of facts. Natural history illustrator Barrett's reconstructions of the natural histories of over 100 major fossil sites—from the well-known Burgess Shale in Canada to more remote places like Graphite Peak in Antarctica—bring distant epochs to life in sequential "screen grabs." Combined with a detailed section on classifications and species indexes, as well as several topical fold-out sections and time lines, this serves equally well for reference and browsing. An excellent narrative companion read would be Richard Dawkins's The Ancestors' Tale, which is a backward journey through evolution. VERDICT While more of a look-it-up than read-it book, this beautiful volume is worthy of any collector's coffee table. Recommended for natural history and reference collections. [For more Darwin titles, see Sapp's roundup, "Charles Darwin at 200," LJ 12/08.—Ed.]—Gregg Sapp, Evergreen State Coll. Lib., Olympia, WA\\\ \
