Infinite Life The Revolutionary Story of Eggs, Evolution, and Lif...

Infinite Life: A Revolutionary Story of Eggs, Evolution and Life on Earth
Authors: Jules Howards


Genres
Science
Nonfiction
Nature
Biology
Evolution
History

Description:
Every animal on the planet owes its existence to one crucial piece of evolutionary the egg.

It's time to tell a new story of life on Earth.



'Jules Howard's egg's-eye view of evolution is dripping with fascinating insights' ALICE ROBERTS



If you think of an egg, what do you see in your mind's eye? A chicken egg, hard-boiled? A slimy mass of frogspawn? Perhaps you see a human egg cell, prepared on a microscope slide in a laboratory? Or the majestic marble-blue eggs of the blackbird?

Every egg there has ever been, is an emblem of survival. Yet the evolution of the animal egg is the dramatic subplot missing in many accounts of how life on Earth came to be. Quite simply, without this universal biological phenomenon, animals as we know them, including us, could not have evolved and flourished.

In Infinite Life, zoology correspondent Jules Howard takes the reader on a mind-bending journey from the churning coastlines of the Cambrian Period and Carboniferous coal forests, where insects were stirring, to the end of the age of dinosaurs when live-birthing mammals began their modern rise to power. Eggs would evolve from out of the sea; be set by animals into soils, sands, canyons and mudflats; be dropped in nests wrapped in silk; hung in stick nests in trees, covered in crystallised shells or secured by placentas.

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