The Hidden Life of Life
A Walk through the Reaches of Time
$56.58
- Hardcover
216 pages
- Release Date
14 March 2018
Summary
An iconoclast and best-selling author of both nonfiction and fiction, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas has spent a lifetime observing, thinking, and writing about the cultures of animals such as lions, wolves, dogs, deer, and humans. In this compulsively readable book, she provides a plainspoken, big-picture look at the commonality of life on our planet, from the littlest microbes to the largest lizards.
Inspired by the idea of symbiosis in evolution—that all living things evolve in a serie…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780271081014 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0271081015 |
| Author: | Elizabeth Marshall Thomas |
| Publisher: | Pennsylvania State University Press |
| Imprint: | Pennsylvania State University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 216 |
| Release Date: | 14 March 2018 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 140mm x 22mm |
| Series: | Animalibus |
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Critics Review
“A skillfully written, well-informed, and accessible reverie on the nature of life on Earth, both fascinating and highly recommended.”
—Susan Waggoner Foreword Reviews
“Life comes in countless variations, yet all are based on the same biological principles. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas loves them all—from lichens to fungi and from crocodiles to primates—and puts us on a time machine to go back to the turns evolution has taken, many of them surprising, and one of them leading to us.”
—Frans de Waal, author of Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
About The Author
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, an anthropologist and animal behaviorist, has published thirteen previous books, including the New York Times best seller The Hidden Life of Dogs, Dreaming of Lions, The Tribe of Tiger, The Old Way, and The Hidden Life of Deer. Her most recent book is Tamed and Untamed: Close Encounters of the Animal Kind, coauthored with Sy Montgomery. She lives in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Learn more at elizabethmarshallthomas.net.
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