“It’s been a while since I read a book with so much good sense, put over in
so amicable a style,” said biologist Lawrence Hurst in his review of William
Schopf’s Cradle of Life (Princeton University Press). It’s an account of how
Schopf, a palaeobiologist, plugged a gap of several billion years in the Earth’s
history when he discovered tiny fossils dating back nearly 4 billion years. It’s
a great take on how life evolved on this planet, and you’ll be able to answer
with confidence questions such as “What are stromatolites good for?”
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