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Stretching from the distant past into the remote future, from primordial Earth to the stars, Evolution is a soaring symphony of struggle, extinction, and survival; a dazzling epic that combines a dozen scientific disciplines and a cast of unforgettable characters to convey the grand drama of... read more
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Life on earth from 65 millions years before the human specie, into a far slung future, is unfolded in surprisingly capturing roller coaster of events. For a story that seemingly we all know (or at least parts of), it manages to provoke interest, suspense and loads of emotional investment that... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)
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“For the mammals of Antarctica, spring was made much more interesting by the possibility that from any snowbank there might suddenly erupt a clutch of ravenous allosaur chicks, snapping and squabbling in pursuit of their first meal.”
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In the last centuries of the empire, educational standards and literacy had fallen. In the dulled heads of the masses, distracted by cheap food and the barbaric spectacles of the coliseums, the values on which Rome had been founded and the ancient rationalism of the Greeks had been replaced by mysticism and superstition.
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The different forms of humans were competing for the same resources. All over the world there had been a wave of extinctions—human extinctions—a wave of last contacts, of regret-free good-byes, as one hominid species after another succumbed to the dark.
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Cretaceous—after creta, meaning “chalk”—for its most enduring monuments, constructed by the toiling plankton.
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Across seventy thousand years these people—humans with as modern a body plan, even as modern a brain, as any twenty-first-century citizen—had scarcely made a single innovation in their technology or techniques.
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When Mother had died, just sixty thousand years before the birth of Christ, there had still been many different kinds of people in the world. There had been Mother’s humanlike people in parts of Africa. In Europe and western Asia lived robust folk like Pebble, like Neandertals. In eastern Asia there were still bands of the skinny, small-brained walkers, the Homo erectus types. The old hominid complexity had reigned still, with many variants and subspecies and even hybrids of the different types.
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And soon the world would be empty of people—empty, save for just one kind.
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But by pressuring the animals at a time when they were most vulnerable, by selectively killing off the young, by disrupting habitats, by taking out key components of the food webs that sustained communities of creatures, they did immense damage.
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No humans had yet moved out of Africa. In Europe and across Asia, there were only the heavy-browed robusts and, in places, the older forms, the skinny
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“Confucius said, ‘Those who say it cannot be done need to get out of the way of the people who are doing it.’ ”
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It was—Honorius had explained to his pupil—as if a whole culture was losing its mind. People were forgetting how to think, and soon they would forget they had forgotten. And, to Honorius’s thinking, Christianity only exacerbated that problem.
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At the edge of the clearing, Purga crept out of a dense patch of ferns.
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- Stephen Baxter (Author)
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Original Language: English
Publisher: Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Country: United States
Publication Date: 2003
ISBN: 034545782X
Page Count: 578
Publisher: Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Country: United States
Publication Date: 2003
ISBN: 034545782X
Page Count: 578
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- Library of Congress: PR6052.A849 E94 2003
- Dewey: 823.914
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