Life (as we know it)

A dizzying ride through 4.6 billion years of life on Planet Earth. We now think this much is true. Once upon a time, before time even existed, all matter in the universe was concentrated in a single point a fraction of the size of an atom. And then? And then it exploded. Tracing the origins of the universe and the planet itself, this book takes readers on a vivid exploration of the extraordinary emergence of life and its subsequent evolution.