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Evolution as seen by an alien

By Clint Witchalls

12 January 2011

IT IS not often that the books I am asked to review go missing. After hours of searching, I found the errant item, with the spine cracked, in my teenage son’s room – an otherwise book-free zone. I can offer no higher recommendation.

This superb comic book tells the story of terrestrial evolution from the perspective of creatures from a planet called Glargal. The development of life on Earth, from primitive cellular organisms to Homo sapiens, is presented by the alien scientist Bloort-183 via an interactive hologram to the king of Glargal and his son. They urgently need to understand…

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