The History of Life A Very Short Introduction Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 27 November 2008

This Very Short Introduction presents a succinct and accessible guide to the key episodes in the story of life on earth - from the very origins of life four million

• Publisher : OUP Oxford
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• Release Date : 27 November 2008

There are few stories more remarkable than the evolution of life on earth. This Very Short Introduction presents a succinct guide to the key episodes in that story - from

• Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
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• Release Date : 24 February 2000

Starting with an examination of how historians work, this "Very Short Introduction" aims to explore history in a general, pithy, and accessible manner, rather than to delve into specific periods.

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 18 May 2024

This text is about the central role of evolution in shaping the nature and diversity of the living world. It describes the processes of natural selection, how adaptations arise, and

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 27 June 2019

The study of human evolution is advancing rapidly. Newly discovered fossil evidence is adding ever more pieces to the puzzle of our past, whilst revolutionary technological advances in the study

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 18 May 2024

Recent archaeological discoveries from China and central Asia have changed our understanding of how human civilization developed in the period of some 4 million years before the start of written history.

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 02 August 2018

While children are a relatively unchanging fact of life, childhood is a constantly shifting concept. Throughout the millennia, the age at which a child becomes a youth and a youth

• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• File Size : 51,9 Mb
• Release Date : 18 May 2024

The Middle Ages (c.500-1500) includes a thousand years of European history. In this Very Short Introduction Miri Rubin tells the story of the times through the people and their

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 24 October 2013

Examines the origins of life on Earth and the search for extraterrestrial life, through an understanding of the factors that have allowed life to exist on this planet and the

• Publisher : OUP Oxford
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• Release Date : 26 June 2003

Less than 450 years ago, all European scholars believed that the earth was the centre of a universe that was at most a few million miles in extent, and that the