Darwin and Wallace -- Natural selection -- The game of life -- How it all began : Hadean and Archean eons -- Planet Earth rocks! -- Life fills the seas : Proterozoic Eon and Cambrian Period -- Life finds a new home : Ordovician and Silurian Periods -- Fantastic fossils -- Animals find their feet : Devonian Period -- Giants from the swamps : Carboniferous Period -- From icehouse to hothouse : Permian Period -- The causes of climate change -- Dinosaurs in charge : Triassic and Jurassic Periods -- T. rex and the rise of flowers : Cretaceous Period -- Evolving together -- The age of mammals : Paleogene Period -- Grasslands and grazers : Neogene Period -- The success of birds -- Evolution of humans : neogene and Quaternary Periods -- Humans change their world : Quaternary Period -- Human-made : Quaternary Period -- The future -- The tree of life -- World map.
Summary:
Join scientists Sarah Darwin and Eva-Maria Sadowski on an electrifying exploration of life on Earth and how it developed. What is evolution? How does it work? And why is it so awesome? The answers to these questions are sure to astonish! Allow yourself to be amazed and astounded as you learn all about natural selection, the theory first suggested by Sarah's great-great-grandfather, Charles Darwin, and his fellow naturalist, Alfred Russel Wallace. Find out how life on our planet has come all the way from bacteria to bees, orchids, finches, dogs, me, and you.
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