From the most celebrated heir to Darwin comes a groundbreaking book on evolution, the summa work of Edward O. Wilson's legendary career.

"Four linked novels from four authors. After the extinction asteroid does not strike Earth, the dinosaurs keep evolving--but so do the mammals. We mammals have achieved humanlike shapes, but now it's cold-blooded, magic-using reptiles against hot-blooded, hot-tempered descendants of cats. In a heroic Bronze Age world similar to 300, the Mrem Clans expand their territory but now face the Lishkash, reptilian masters of a cold-blooded empire of slave...

"An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the ocean floor, leading her on a journey that will encompass the full trajectory of the cosmos and the passage of a single human life. Leigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to the waterfront as an escape from her unhappy home life and volatile father. Enchanted by the undersea world of her childhood, she excels in marine biology, traveling the globe to study...

Explores the never-ending cycle of death and its impact on the living, including the latest scientific discoveries, characteristics of animals with longevity, and cultural taboos.

When Arnold wishes he had more information for his family tree, Ms. Frizzle revs up the Magic School Bus and the class zooms back to prehistoric times. First stop: 3.5 billion years ago! There aren't any people around to ask for directions. Luckily Ms. Frizzle has a plan, and the class is right there to watch simple cells become sponges and then fish and dinosaurs, then mammals and early primates and, eventually, modern humans. It's the longest class...

A thrilling new account of human origins, as told by the paleontologist who led the most groundbreaking dig in recent history.-- Somewhere west of Munich, Madelaine Böhme and her colleagues dig for clues to the origins of humankind. What they discover is beyond anything they imagined: the fossilized bones of Danuvius guggenmosi ignite a global media frenzy. This ancient ancestor defies our knowledge of human history--his nearly twelve-million-year-old...

With spectacular computer animation and cutting-edge research, "Origin" examines a question that baffled science for centuries: How did life on Earth begin? Today, most researchers insist it arose through simple chemistry that - without direction or plan - transformed inanimate matter into the first living cell. Yet, this explanation is devoid of evidence and unsatisfying, even to its most ardent supporters. As "Origin" exposes the flaws of materialistic...