The story starts in earnest 38 billion years ago with the earliest known form of life on earth a bacteria that still exists today and journeys through action packed millennia charting the appearance of new life forms as well as devastating extinction events. Prehistoric life the definitive visual history of life on earth isbn 9781405347587 kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand und verkauf duch amazon. Prehistoric life is a good example of a genre that dk seemed to have invented the visuals are perfect dk has some secret printing method that allows its pictures to be excitedly fine textured and vivid the writing which could be quite pedestrian is well done and done at a adult level. The chapter on young earth explains how forces shaped earth and steered the course of life the main part of the book life on earth lays out and catalogues the rich story of life from its beginnings 4 billion years ago through each geological period such as the jurassic and cretaceous to the present