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Life Story
By Valerie Teal
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Description
This is the adventure story of Life, the ultimate survivor. It is an account of the never-ending battle life wages against competing organisms, the great accidents of existence in the solar system, and the meteorological and geothermic events of a young planet. This is how life fought its way through unimaginable challenges, and how it will do so again.
So far, life has endured five mass extinctions and a global warming event. You carry a survival kit that has protected you from fire, flood, famine, and poisoning. You are made of stardust that is 13.8 billion years old. You are a home, a partner, and a life support system to billions of organisms, surrounded by your fellow survivors.
This is a story of big numbers: billions of stars, neurons, genes, cells, eggs, spores, and connections. Life has taken an unfathomable amount of time to reach this point, overcoming catastrophe after catastrophe with a mix of luck and remarkable engineering. Every living thing around you and within you is both a refugee from countless disasters and a testament to resilience and adaptation.
The gift of evolution has bestowed humanity with great intelligence, and with great intelligence comes great responsibility.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
208
Release Date:
2025-07-18
Publication Date:
2025-07-18
Publisher:
Austin Macauley
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
1035878879
ISBN13:
9781035878871
Weight:
324 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
11 cm
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