Infinite Life a Revolutionary Story of Eggs, Evolution and Life on Earth
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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.Whether
belonging to birds, insects, mammals or millipedes, animal eggs are
objects that have been shaped by their ecology, forged by mass
extinctions and honed by natural selection to near-perfection.
Finally, the epic story of their role in the tapestry of life can
be told.
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Jules Howard ,
Elliott & Thompson
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Jules Howard,
Elliott & Thompson
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Slovart
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