Life on Earth: A Natural History

Life on Earth: A Natural History by David Attenborough. Published by Little, Brown & Co, Boston, MA, 1980. 1st American Edition 5th Printing. Hardbound, Paper DJ. Size 4to (up to 12'' tall). Condition: Fine in Good- DJ. 319 Pgs. ISBN 0316057452. LCCN 79-90108. This book's 13 chapters (like the 13 programs of the highly acclaimed BBC television series on which it is based) follow the sequence of epochal events in the evolution of life on earth: the emergence of unicelled, then multicelled organisms; the movement of living things from sea to land; adaptation to life in the air; the development of warm-blooded animals and the specialized breeding techniques that ensured the mammals' success in colonizing the entire earth; the primates' transition from a ground life to a tree life and back to ground again; and, finally, the evolution of man. Illustrated with color photographs. Description text copyright 2006 BooksForComfort. Item ID 10937.