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First published November 1, 2002
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Stephen Baxter
394听books2,522听followersStephen Baxter is a trained engineer with degrees from Cambridge (mathematics) and Southampton Universities (doctorate in aeroengineering research). Baxter is the winner of the British Science Fiction Award and the Locus Award, as well as being a nominee for an Arthur C. Clarke Award, most recently for Manifold: Time. His novel Voyage won the Sidewise Award for Best Alternate History Novel of the Year; he also won the John W. Campbell Award and the Philip K. Dick Award for his novel The Time Ships. He is currently working on his next novel, a collaboration with Sir Arthur C. Clarke. Mr. Baxter lives in Prestwood, England.
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August 1, 2021
A great idea to make the species the stars of an entertaining edutainment ride, although the infodump problem shouldn麓t be underestimated.
This is always a problem with Baxter麓s writing, who is a bit too quickly mass producing new works by simply putting much science in a rudimentary plot and character bodice. That麓s really frustrating, especially for a sci-fi 眉bernerd like me who loves this genre, but can麓t handle or accept the fact that the author doesn麓t care about finetuning, perfecting, investing more time, plotting, and generally putting more love and creativity into his works.
When comparing Baxter with the other big sci fi names of the late 20th and beginning 21st century, one will notice that they have produced just a hand full, but long matured, well cooked, and often unique meals of special taste with impressions one can麓t find somewhere else. They had some standalone novels, often loveless too, without implementation in the series and world building they had done, but even then they invested more than Baxter can
or wants.
He could have made himself one of the big, immortal authors if he would have condensed the ideas and effort of 2 to 4 average novels to one really good one, maybe in a series people love to read so much more than this always a bit exhausting to get in standalone novels. What potentiates the problem is that he doesn麓t write short, easygoing, entertaining novels, but longer and exhausting, difficult to read ones.
I麓ve read 2 or 3 of his works, they are average and nice, but I am not interested in having to skim and scan the lengths, be annoyed by the logic holes, and in general having the feeling of an author who just wants to put out his next novel at any cost, because not many of my favorite sci-fi authors did it, or, for instance Neal Asher,
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who is extremely underrated, wrote at a high quality similar to Corey or Hamilton.
Tropes show how literature is conceptualized and created and which mixture of elements makes works and genres unique:
This is always a problem with Baxter麓s writing, who is a bit too quickly mass producing new works by simply putting much science in a rudimentary plot and character bodice. That麓s really frustrating, especially for a sci-fi 眉bernerd like me who loves this genre, but can麓t handle or accept the fact that the author doesn麓t care about finetuning, perfecting, investing more time, plotting, and generally putting more love and creativity into his works.
When comparing Baxter with the other big sci fi names of the late 20th and beginning 21st century, one will notice that they have produced just a hand full, but long matured, well cooked, and often unique meals of special taste with impressions one can麓t find somewhere else. They had some standalone novels, often loveless too, without implementation in the series and world building they had done, but even then they invested more than Baxter can
or wants.
He could have made himself one of the big, immortal authors if he would have condensed the ideas and effort of 2 to 4 average novels to one really good one, maybe in a series people love to read so much more than this always a bit exhausting to get in standalone novels. What potentiates the problem is that he doesn麓t write short, easygoing, entertaining novels, but longer and exhausting, difficult to read ones.
I麓ve read 2 or 3 of his works, they are average and nice, but I am not interested in having to skim and scan the lengths, be annoyed by the logic holes, and in general having the feeling of an author who just wants to put out his next novel at any cost, because not many of my favorite sci-fi authors did it, or, for instance Neal Asher,
/author/show...
who is extremely underrated, wrote at a high quality similar to Corey or Hamilton.
Tropes show how literature is conceptualized and created and which mixture of elements makes works and genres unique:
January 6, 2013
I had put off reading this book for years because, while I've enjoyed many of Stephen Baxter's novels, the idea of wading through 750 pages of the story of human evolution narrated by anthropomorphised primates really didn't appeal. The ape-creatures in the last and weakest part of his Time/Space/Origin trilogy had put me off.
My bad. This is really nothing less than a story of how we became human, of nature red in tooth and claw. It's a story of short and brutal lives, of disease, murder, rape and war, and yet at the same time, for me at least (and I can understand how this would not be a universal reaction) it was curiously uplifting. Beginning 65 million years ago with a small rat-like primate through whose eyes we see the aftermath of the asteroid impact which (in Baxter's universe at least) wiped out the dinosaurs, the book moves us slowly towards the present day. Even the bits which ought not to have worked 鈥� the flights of fancy in which Baxter speculates about dinosaurs surviving in the Antarctic until 10 million years BCE and the enormous pterosaurs with the 100 metre wingspans, I thought actually worked well, not least in driving home how incomplete the fossil record is, and how much we do not and cannot ever know (though one has to read carefully to be sure what he is making up and what is based on sound science 鈥� passing references to animals that left no traces being the only clues in places).
Other highlights? The woman who runs away from the hunter-gatherer community in which she grew up to escape the inevitable forced infanticide of her child, stumbling into one of humanity's earliest towns, the story of the monkeys that somehow survived a crossing of the Atlantic on a fallen tree and populating South America, the tale of an encounter between two human children and one of the very last surviving Neanderthals and the three characters hunting for fossil bones amidst the crumbling ruins of the late Roman Empire.
Another move I was sceptical about until I read it was the decision to extend the story into the future. Baxter does deep time about as well as any author I've read and for all that it moves the story from scientifically grounded narrative to speculation, it helps to emphasise that we are merely one small part of a much longer and bigger story, not the culmination of some great master-plan. That millions of years from now, our distant descendants might easily be as different from us as we are from our dinosaur-age ancestors and that rather than being impossibly advanced hyper-intelligent beings colonising the galaxy, they might revert to a simpler way of life. Even his explanation of how human civilisation ends emphasises that we are prey to powerful forces that we cannot control. What does for humanity is not nuclear war, global warming or a deadly virus grown in a laboratory, but an enormous super-volcano that disrupts the planet's weather systems enough to cause civilisation to collapse. A big book, and one stuffed with enough ideas to fill several novels.
My bad. This is really nothing less than a story of how we became human, of nature red in tooth and claw. It's a story of short and brutal lives, of disease, murder, rape and war, and yet at the same time, for me at least (and I can understand how this would not be a universal reaction) it was curiously uplifting. Beginning 65 million years ago with a small rat-like primate through whose eyes we see the aftermath of the asteroid impact which (in Baxter's universe at least) wiped out the dinosaurs, the book moves us slowly towards the present day. Even the bits which ought not to have worked 鈥� the flights of fancy in which Baxter speculates about dinosaurs surviving in the Antarctic until 10 million years BCE and the enormous pterosaurs with the 100 metre wingspans, I thought actually worked well, not least in driving home how incomplete the fossil record is, and how much we do not and cannot ever know (though one has to read carefully to be sure what he is making up and what is based on sound science 鈥� passing references to animals that left no traces being the only clues in places).
Other highlights? The woman who runs away from the hunter-gatherer community in which she grew up to escape the inevitable forced infanticide of her child, stumbling into one of humanity's earliest towns, the story of the monkeys that somehow survived a crossing of the Atlantic on a fallen tree and populating South America, the tale of an encounter between two human children and one of the very last surviving Neanderthals and the three characters hunting for fossil bones amidst the crumbling ruins of the late Roman Empire.
Another move I was sceptical about until I read it was the decision to extend the story into the future. Baxter does deep time about as well as any author I've read and for all that it moves the story from scientifically grounded narrative to speculation, it helps to emphasise that we are merely one small part of a much longer and bigger story, not the culmination of some great master-plan. That millions of years from now, our distant descendants might easily be as different from us as we are from our dinosaur-age ancestors and that rather than being impossibly advanced hyper-intelligent beings colonising the galaxy, they might revert to a simpler way of life. Even his explanation of how human civilisation ends emphasises that we are prey to powerful forces that we cannot control. What does for humanity is not nuclear war, global warming or a deadly virus grown in a laboratory, but an enormous super-volcano that disrupts the planet's weather systems enough to cause civilisation to collapse. A big book, and one stuffed with enough ideas to fill several novels.
March 22, 2008
THIS is LIFE. Anybody interested in the WHY at all should read this book. Baxter excells himself by describing the roots of humanity, and the hardship of our ancestors on the way obtaining self-awareness.
I haven麓t seen anything better regarding the origins of intelligence. You will recognize the chapter(s).
Absolutely recommended!
I haven麓t seen anything better regarding the origins of intelligence. You will recognize the chapter(s).
Absolutely recommended!
February 5, 2023
This read a bit like a BBC Earth documentary or some other similar nature doc - PBS Nova or CBC The Nature of Things. I was well aware it was fiction (and at times downright speculated fantasy) but rooted with true archaeological data. Though I found it extremely long and never ending, while understanding that such a colossal work well ought to be so, I found it to be a fantastic journey and continue to think of it often almost daily and am very glad I invested the time for this one. It was however rather dismal at times, Baxter choosing more pessimistic outcomes rather than the optimistic; having little faith in human ingenuity to better its fate, which is how I imagine (who I believe to be) Baxter's idol A. C. Clarke would have gone with this. But that is the author's privilege. My only problem is the way too many times he felt he needed to point out the release of excrement of each character that lived and died within the pages of this brick.
April 4, 2008
This is a series of episodes illustrating critical (if imagined) chapters in primate evolution. It begins with a story about a primordial primate living underfoot while dinosaurs are stomping around, works its way up to a brief episode about modern humans, and then immediately wipes out the human race and moves forward.
The pre-human episodes are meant to conform very closely to the fossil record. Indeed, when indulging in more extreme flights of fancy, Baxter provides explanatory bits as to why it's at least possible that his speculations are consistent with current understandings. I found the later (post-human) episodes less believable, although entertainingly imaginative.
Baxter leans very heavily on themes which are important and seldom considered: That the process of evolution is brutal, painful, and uncaring; that its outcomes are arbitrary; that sexual drives and sexual conflict are at the root of every origin. He presents all his subjects with the same tight focus and tries to narrate from within the head of even his most primitive characters. This has left me, months later, with an altered perspective about the mice and squirrels that live under /my/ feet. In that respect I'd say that this book was extremely effective, although perhaps not in the way that was intended.
The pre-human episodes are meant to conform very closely to the fossil record. Indeed, when indulging in more extreme flights of fancy, Baxter provides explanatory bits as to why it's at least possible that his speculations are consistent with current understandings. I found the later (post-human) episodes less believable, although entertainingly imaginative.
Baxter leans very heavily on themes which are important and seldom considered: That the process of evolution is brutal, painful, and uncaring; that its outcomes are arbitrary; that sexual drives and sexual conflict are at the root of every origin. He presents all his subjects with the same tight focus and tries to narrate from within the head of even his most primitive characters. This has left me, months later, with an altered perspective about the mice and squirrels that live under /my/ feet. In that respect I'd say that this book was extremely effective, although perhaps not in the way that was intended.
December 24, 2024
Second read 鈥� 15 December 2024 - . Stephen Baxter鈥檚 2002 episodic novel Evolution opens with the story of Purga, a shrew-like mammal living 65 million years ago, under the feet of the very last dinosaurs. The fascination here is not the plot, which is actually endangering enough, but the narrative description of the world of that time. One reason to read this is the feeling of time travel into the evolutionary history of primates and hominids. But the reader should remember that this is not just fictionalized science, but speculative science. While all the specifics are necessarily fictionalized, there are also instances where Baxter goes off into speculations for which there is no actual evidence. For example, 1) intelligent Ornitholestes (Jurassic dinosaurs), 2) Antarctic dinosaurs that survived the Cretaceous extinction for an extra 55 million years, and 3) hominid variants with no fossil record, but who are parallel with known species. He ties the novella-length stories together through the occasional discovery of fossil or other evidence of one episode in a later episode 鈥� and also through thematic emphasis on evolution as a driver of human existence as we know it.
Baxter shows us evolution not just through survival of advantageous mutations, but also through social and sexual selection, a sort of unintended self-direction by our ancestors. That is certainly some kind of influence, but I think he overplays that aspect. For example, it seems to me that the human tendency to believe in a god or gods is not just the result of leaders who killed unbelievers, but that the anthropomorphizing of beings and events was the only available way to explain them in the absence of ability to experiment. He also repeatedly characterizes maternal, paternal, and even community care for young offspring as matter of protecting genes. True, but it also seems to me that self-preservation is a strong motivation for protecting your tribe.
At page 442 of my 566-page edition, the story crosses over from the past to the present day of 2031. From there, Baxter speculates on the future of humanity, taking our descendants through extinction events such as the Anthropocene one, or an asteroid collision. He uses the principles he has developed in the first 戮 of the book to point out evolution drives towards change and survival, which is not the same thing as 鈥減rogress.鈥� This last 录 of the book is an outstanding intellectual achievement more believable than the future histories of Olaf Stapledon and many other SF writers who think in deep time.
I have re-read this novel because it is mentioned in Lecture 4 鈥淓volution and Deep Time in Science Fiction鈥� of Gary Wolfe鈥檚 video lecture series . I recommend it highly to those who read SF for the big ideas.
First read 鈥� 3 September 2004 - ****. This is an amazing adventure ride through the history and future of primate life on Earth. It is told in episodic segments from the dinosaur extinction event in the Yucatan to the equally distant future. I admit that I found some of the early episodes dull; it is hard to develop much empathy for furry proto-lemurs living in burrows. But Baxter develops evolution itself, fueled by a brutal compulsion to reproduce and preserve ones one offspring, as the recurring driver behind biological, environmental, and social change. This serves to put his projections from the present on into future times into perspective; they are driven by the same biological imperative. Those future events are strongly substantiated, entirely fascinating, and certainly at odds with the confident optimism with which we have been trained to see the future. I think comparisons of this book to Olaf Stapledon's and H.G. Wells's are justifiable.
Baxter shows us evolution not just through survival of advantageous mutations, but also through social and sexual selection, a sort of unintended self-direction by our ancestors. That is certainly some kind of influence, but I think he overplays that aspect. For example, it seems to me that the human tendency to believe in a god or gods is not just the result of leaders who killed unbelievers, but that the anthropomorphizing of beings and events was the only available way to explain them in the absence of ability to experiment. He also repeatedly characterizes maternal, paternal, and even community care for young offspring as matter of protecting genes. True, but it also seems to me that self-preservation is a strong motivation for protecting your tribe.
At page 442 of my 566-page edition, the story crosses over from the past to the present day of 2031. From there, Baxter speculates on the future of humanity, taking our descendants through extinction events such as the Anthropocene one, or an asteroid collision. He uses the principles he has developed in the first 戮 of the book to point out evolution drives towards change and survival, which is not the same thing as 鈥減rogress.鈥� This last 录 of the book is an outstanding intellectual achievement more believable than the future histories of Olaf Stapledon and many other SF writers who think in deep time.
I have re-read this novel because it is mentioned in Lecture 4 鈥淓volution and Deep Time in Science Fiction鈥� of Gary Wolfe鈥檚 video lecture series . I recommend it highly to those who read SF for the big ideas.
First read 鈥� 3 September 2004 - ****. This is an amazing adventure ride through the history and future of primate life on Earth. It is told in episodic segments from the dinosaur extinction event in the Yucatan to the equally distant future. I admit that I found some of the early episodes dull; it is hard to develop much empathy for furry proto-lemurs living in burrows. But Baxter develops evolution itself, fueled by a brutal compulsion to reproduce and preserve ones one offspring, as the recurring driver behind biological, environmental, and social change. This serves to put his projections from the present on into future times into perspective; they are driven by the same biological imperative. Those future events are strongly substantiated, entirely fascinating, and certainly at odds with the confident optimism with which we have been trained to see the future. I think comparisons of this book to Olaf Stapledon's and H.G. Wells's are justifiable.
January 12, 2011
In the musical 1776, Col. Thomas McKean says of General Washington's reports from the field, reporting everything that's gone wrong since the last report, "That man could depress a hyena." This seems to be a fair comment on many of Baxter's books, and Evolution is no exception.
Spoilers ahead.
The frame story concerns Joan Useb, a paleontologist who, in 2031, has organized a major interdisciplinary conference with the covert goal of sparking a movement to do something effective about saving the biosphere. The only amusement to be found in the frame story are the nasty Tuckerizations of two well-known British fans, Gregory Pickersgill and Alison Scott. Pickersgill is a radical anti-globalization activist, the charismatic leader of a splinter Christian sect, the core around which the umbrella organization "Fourth World" has formed. (Or so it is believed. It turns out that Pickersgill doesn't exist; he's just a cover identity for someone even more extreme and unpleasant.) Alison Scott at least gets to exist; she's a genetic engineer who sells her services to the very wealthy, to give their children advantages rather than curing disease. She's so focussed on money and showmanship that she even uses her own offspring as walking advertisements for what she can do for your next child, if you can pay enough.
The main body of the book is better. It's necessarily episodic, covering the evolution of primates from a rodent-like creature during and after the last days of the dinosaurs, through a monkey-like creature 500 million years from now that's fully symbiotic with a tree. "Fully symbiotic," in this case, means that the Tree provides a good deal more than shelter. It produces a specialized root that attaches to the bellies of these last primates, providing not just nourishment and psychotropic drugs, but genetic mixing and control of reproduction. The primates in return bring nutrients to the Tree that it can't obtain otherwise, and carry its seeds to favorable ground. Along the way, Baxter does some interesting things, imagining plausible forms that aren't represented in the necessarily patchy fossil record, such as an elaborate dinosaurs-and-primates ecology in Antarctica, fifty-five million years after the presumed extinction of the dinosaurs--an ecology first frozen into extinction and then ground up beyond the possibility of fossilization by the advancing icecap. This is an utterly grim extinction event, of course, with all the species dying out entirely rather than evolving into something else, but that's Baxter for you.
As exemplified by the dinosaurs and primates in Antarctica sequence, Baxter does not confine himself solely to the direct line of descent from little Purgatorius to humans. We also get to see the hypothetical, but plausible, harrowing adventure of the monkey-like critters that get accidentally rafted across the Atlantic to become the ancestors of the monkeys of South America, and other plausible but unrecorded species.
Eventually, though, we do get to the more or less direct and recent ancestors of humans--the first ape to lead his troop ou t onto the African savannah as the forests shrink, homo erectus, neanderthals, Cro-Magnon, early civilized humans. Amongst the neanderthals, we get a story that is at once encouraging and grim: a little band of neanderthals, led by a man called Pebble, st ruggling to survive, forms an alliance with a pair of wandering almost-Cro-Magnon, Harpoon and Ko-Ko. First they trade, then they learn some of each other's best tricks, then they combine their efforts to cross over to an island, wipe out the remnant of homo erectus living there, and seize it for themselves. Baxter does depict the two kinds as mutually fertile, which I think is currently not the opinion of scientists, but that's a minor point, considering that opinion on that has changed more than once.
Once we get to unambiguously modern humans, though, we're in trouble. It's good (I think) that Baxter makes the point that primitive humans who believed they were living in harmony with nature actually did a devasting job on their prey species. There's some amusement value in reading the description of the First Fan:
"She had always been isolated, even as a child. She could not throw herself into the games of chase and wrestling and chattering that the other youngsters had indulged in, or their adolescent sexual experiments. It was always as if the others knew how to behave, what do do, how to laugh and cry--how to fit in, a mystery she could never share. Her restless inventiveness in such a conservative culture--and her habit of trying to figure out why things happened, how they worked--didn't make her any more popular." (page 292)
Alas, this woman, Mother, who invents conscious thought as a tool for something other than social interaction, and consequently invents a variety of other useful tools (in a reversal of the old depiction of men inventing tools almost certainly invented and used by women, who did most of the foraging and gathering, Baxter has Mother invent the spear-thrower, something far more likely to have been invented by the men who did most of the hunting) becomes obsessively fixated on the death of her son, invents gods, religion, life after death, black magic, and human sacrifice. Baxter assigns the whole thing to one emotionally unbalanced woman, and portrays it all in relentlessly negative terms, even while conceding that this nasty invention caught on and survived because it conveyed survival benefits to its adopters. It's all downhill from there, as far as human character goes. On page 322, we're told:
"And just as they were able to believe that things, weapons or animals or the sky, were in some way people, it wasn't a hard leap to make to believe that some people were no more than things. The old categories had broken down. In attacking the river folk they werent killing humans, people like themselves. The river folk, for all their technical cleverness with fire and clay, had no such belief. It was a weapon they could not match. And this small but vicious conflict set a pattern that would be repeated again and again in the long, bloody ages to come. And there it is, folks, the roots of the Holocaust right there at the dawn of civilization, with the invention of religion."
The problem with this is that Baxter has already shown us repeatedly, in earlier episodes in the Evolution of Humans, that it's nonsense. Time and again he has shown us early hominids and pre-hominids regarding strangers of same or similar species as creatures to be killed. Over and over again the men, the boys, and sometimes even the young girls are killed, and maybe the adult or near-adult females are kept for breeding purposes. The great mental breakthrough that Pebble and Harpoon made, in the early morning of genus Homo, was the possibility of active cooperation with other bands. The great mental breakthrough Harpoon's ancestors had made, back at the very dawn of genus Homo, was the invention of trade as a possible means of relating to humans from other bands.
And what's striking and different about raids that Mother's followers make on other bands, is not that they kill most of the members of the band. The thing Mother's followers do that's different is that first, they make peaceful contact with the band to find out what neat new technology they have, and then, when they do attack, they spare not only the adult and near-adult females, but also some of the adult males, the ones who are the experts in the most interesting bits of new technology that the target band has. What's different about Mother's followers is not that they have found a way to regard other people as things, but that they have found reasons other than sexual exploitation to forcibly add people to their band rather than kill them. For Mother's people, other people are useful or dangerous precisely because they are people, with knowledge and skills of their own, rather than just rival animals competing for the same resources. What makes them more dangerous is not that they have new talent for dehumanizing other people (earlier varieties of hominid didn't need to dehumanize people because it never occurred to them that hominids not members of their own band were people), but the fact that their killing technology gets a lot better.
Eventually , of course, we catch up to the frame story, and the downfall of Homo sapiens without ever having gotten humans even as far as Mars. After all, how could such a loser species do anything really grand? Post-collapse, it apparently takes only a thousand years or so for humans to completely lose the power of speech. An interesting detail from this point on is that Baxter, who never used the words "man" and "woman" to describe males and females of primate species until he got to genus Homo, does not stop using it as he describes the steadily more primitive and degraded post-Homo varieties of primate. Thus we have a primate evolved to live pretty much exactly like a naked mole rat, referred to as "mole woman," but only after Baxter has gone to great lengths to emphasize the fact that these "mole folk" have no higher consiousness at all, and virtually no brains.
All in all, it's a depressing, negative view of humans and evolution, and evidently intended to be. Avoid this one.
Spoilers ahead.
The frame story concerns Joan Useb, a paleontologist who, in 2031, has organized a major interdisciplinary conference with the covert goal of sparking a movement to do something effective about saving the biosphere. The only amusement to be found in the frame story are the nasty Tuckerizations of two well-known British fans, Gregory Pickersgill and Alison Scott. Pickersgill is a radical anti-globalization activist, the charismatic leader of a splinter Christian sect, the core around which the umbrella organization "Fourth World" has formed. (Or so it is believed. It turns out that Pickersgill doesn't exist; he's just a cover identity for someone even more extreme and unpleasant.) Alison Scott at least gets to exist; she's a genetic engineer who sells her services to the very wealthy, to give their children advantages rather than curing disease. She's so focussed on money and showmanship that she even uses her own offspring as walking advertisements for what she can do for your next child, if you can pay enough.
The main body of the book is better. It's necessarily episodic, covering the evolution of primates from a rodent-like creature during and after the last days of the dinosaurs, through a monkey-like creature 500 million years from now that's fully symbiotic with a tree. "Fully symbiotic," in this case, means that the Tree provides a good deal more than shelter. It produces a specialized root that attaches to the bellies of these last primates, providing not just nourishment and psychotropic drugs, but genetic mixing and control of reproduction. The primates in return bring nutrients to the Tree that it can't obtain otherwise, and carry its seeds to favorable ground. Along the way, Baxter does some interesting things, imagining plausible forms that aren't represented in the necessarily patchy fossil record, such as an elaborate dinosaurs-and-primates ecology in Antarctica, fifty-five million years after the presumed extinction of the dinosaurs--an ecology first frozen into extinction and then ground up beyond the possibility of fossilization by the advancing icecap. This is an utterly grim extinction event, of course, with all the species dying out entirely rather than evolving into something else, but that's Baxter for you.
As exemplified by the dinosaurs and primates in Antarctica sequence, Baxter does not confine himself solely to the direct line of descent from little Purgatorius to humans. We also get to see the hypothetical, but plausible, harrowing adventure of the monkey-like critters that get accidentally rafted across the Atlantic to become the ancestors of the monkeys of South America, and other plausible but unrecorded species.
Eventually, though, we do get to the more or less direct and recent ancestors of humans--the first ape to lead his troop ou t onto the African savannah as the forests shrink, homo erectus, neanderthals, Cro-Magnon, early civilized humans. Amongst the neanderthals, we get a story that is at once encouraging and grim: a little band of neanderthals, led by a man called Pebble, st ruggling to survive, forms an alliance with a pair of wandering almost-Cro-Magnon, Harpoon and Ko-Ko. First they trade, then they learn some of each other's best tricks, then they combine their efforts to cross over to an island, wipe out the remnant of homo erectus living there, and seize it for themselves. Baxter does depict the two kinds as mutually fertile, which I think is currently not the opinion of scientists, but that's a minor point, considering that opinion on that has changed more than once.
Once we get to unambiguously modern humans, though, we're in trouble. It's good (I think) that Baxter makes the point that primitive humans who believed they were living in harmony with nature actually did a devasting job on their prey species. There's some amusement value in reading the description of the First Fan:
"She had always been isolated, even as a child. She could not throw herself into the games of chase and wrestling and chattering that the other youngsters had indulged in, or their adolescent sexual experiments. It was always as if the others knew how to behave, what do do, how to laugh and cry--how to fit in, a mystery she could never share. Her restless inventiveness in such a conservative culture--and her habit of trying to figure out why things happened, how they worked--didn't make her any more popular." (page 292)
Alas, this woman, Mother, who invents conscious thought as a tool for something other than social interaction, and consequently invents a variety of other useful tools (in a reversal of the old depiction of men inventing tools almost certainly invented and used by women, who did most of the foraging and gathering, Baxter has Mother invent the spear-thrower, something far more likely to have been invented by the men who did most of the hunting) becomes obsessively fixated on the death of her son, invents gods, religion, life after death, black magic, and human sacrifice. Baxter assigns the whole thing to one emotionally unbalanced woman, and portrays it all in relentlessly negative terms, even while conceding that this nasty invention caught on and survived because it conveyed survival benefits to its adopters. It's all downhill from there, as far as human character goes. On page 322, we're told:
"And just as they were able to believe that things, weapons or animals or the sky, were in some way people, it wasn't a hard leap to make to believe that some people were no more than things. The old categories had broken down. In attacking the river folk they werent killing humans, people like themselves. The river folk, for all their technical cleverness with fire and clay, had no such belief. It was a weapon they could not match. And this small but vicious conflict set a pattern that would be repeated again and again in the long, bloody ages to come. And there it is, folks, the roots of the Holocaust right there at the dawn of civilization, with the invention of religion."
The problem with this is that Baxter has already shown us repeatedly, in earlier episodes in the Evolution of Humans, that it's nonsense. Time and again he has shown us early hominids and pre-hominids regarding strangers of same or similar species as creatures to be killed. Over and over again the men, the boys, and sometimes even the young girls are killed, and maybe the adult or near-adult females are kept for breeding purposes. The great mental breakthrough that Pebble and Harpoon made, in the early morning of genus Homo, was the possibility of active cooperation with other bands. The great mental breakthrough Harpoon's ancestors had made, back at the very dawn of genus Homo, was the invention of trade as a possible means of relating to humans from other bands.
And what's striking and different about raids that Mother's followers make on other bands, is not that they kill most of the members of the band. The thing Mother's followers do that's different is that first, they make peaceful contact with the band to find out what neat new technology they have, and then, when they do attack, they spare not only the adult and near-adult females, but also some of the adult males, the ones who are the experts in the most interesting bits of new technology that the target band has. What's different about Mother's followers is not that they have found a way to regard other people as things, but that they have found reasons other than sexual exploitation to forcibly add people to their band rather than kill them. For Mother's people, other people are useful or dangerous precisely because they are people, with knowledge and skills of their own, rather than just rival animals competing for the same resources. What makes them more dangerous is not that they have new talent for dehumanizing other people (earlier varieties of hominid didn't need to dehumanize people because it never occurred to them that hominids not members of their own band were people), but the fact that their killing technology gets a lot better.
Eventually , of course, we catch up to the frame story, and the downfall of Homo sapiens without ever having gotten humans even as far as Mars. After all, how could such a loser species do anything really grand? Post-collapse, it apparently takes only a thousand years or so for humans to completely lose the power of speech. An interesting detail from this point on is that Baxter, who never used the words "man" and "woman" to describe males and females of primate species until he got to genus Homo, does not stop using it as he describes the steadily more primitive and degraded post-Homo varieties of primate. Thus we have a primate evolved to live pretty much exactly like a naked mole rat, referred to as "mole woman," but only after Baxter has gone to great lengths to emphasize the fact that these "mole folk" have no higher consiousness at all, and virtually no brains.
All in all, it's a depressing, negative view of humans and evolution, and evidently intended to be. Avoid this one.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
December 10, 2014
-Otra forma de hacer g茅nero.-
G茅nero. Ciencia-Ficci贸n.
Lo que nos cuenta. Con vistazos intermitentes a una Tierra del futuro pr贸ximo en la que sociedad y ecosistema est谩n en claro peligro, repaso a unos 565 millones de a帽os, desde el Cret谩cico hasta un futuro muy lejano, a trav茅s de unos protagonistas muy especiales con unas vidas muy particulares.
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Lo que nos cuenta. Con vistazos intermitentes a una Tierra del futuro pr贸ximo en la que sociedad y ecosistema est谩n en claro peligro, repaso a unos 565 millones de a帽os, desde el Cret谩cico hasta un futuro muy lejano, a trav茅s de unos protagonistas muy especiales con unas vidas muy particulares.
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November 10, 2007
This is kind of different. It doesn't have a plot. It's essentially a series of short stories about the lives of various creatures on the evolutionary path to modern humans and beyond. Said that way, it doesn't sound very interesting but it kept my attention through all 800+ pages.
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July 3, 2010Worthwhile: I received this book as a gift and did not have high expectations, but I was pleasantly surprised.
Baxter manages to novelise very effectively the course of evolution through billions of years, which is no mean achievement. The book is fact-based, though of necessity it does spin some extravagant speculation from those facts, and in a few places those speculations are less than convincing, such as the prehistoric Neanderthal shanty town outside the Homo Sapiens village.
Baxter writes about science in a very eloquent and engaging way. Where he consistently shows weakness is when he is writing dialogue. This led me to skip through the stilted Roman chapter.
That said, the later chapter about the British soldiers in an empty future England was quite haunting, and I really liked the way he consistently found low-key but satisfying conclusions to the various evolutionary vignettes.
A book that geniunely throws fresh perspective on the evolution of life. I'm glad I read it.
Baxter manages to novelise very effectively the course of evolution through billions of years, which is no mean achievement. The book is fact-based, though of necessity it does spin some extravagant speculation from those facts, and in a few places those speculations are less than convincing, such as the prehistoric Neanderthal shanty town outside the Homo Sapiens village.
Baxter writes about science in a very eloquent and engaging way. Where he consistently shows weakness is when he is writing dialogue. This led me to skip through the stilted Roman chapter.
That said, the later chapter about the British soldiers in an empty future England was quite haunting, and I really liked the way he consistently found low-key but satisfying conclusions to the various evolutionary vignettes.
A book that geniunely throws fresh perspective on the evolution of life. I'm glad I read it.
March 29, 2014
As a rollicking science fiction tale, this book may leave the reader scratching their head. It is more a series of interrelated short stories and vignettes given from the viewpoint of creatures stretching back in time from the first tiny mammals to survive the impact which took out the dinosaurs, to the present, to the distant future when our planet is trashed and our sun has expanded to re-absorb the Earth.
What this story -does- do more clearly than all the snoozer science textbooks we were forced to read in high school and college is take the various critical turning points of evolution, when some new adaptation or trait emerged to help our species evolve into the species we know of as homo sapiens today. And each of those vignettes is interesting, fully explained, and will leave the lay-reader with a thorough understanding of how we ended up where we are today.
And then Baxter journeys into our future...
With the same thoroughness, Baxter takes us through various plausibilities, extrapolating the choices we are making as a species today to ignore environmental degradation, civil unrest, aggression, and carries our species forward into the distant future, building upon the framework he built in the first half of the book to get us where we are evolutionarily speaking today, to show us where we are headed in the future ... and it is not pretty.
This book stayed with me for a long time after I read it.We're all screwed!!!
4 Evolutionary Monkeys
What this story -does- do more clearly than all the snoozer science textbooks we were forced to read in high school and college is take the various critical turning points of evolution, when some new adaptation or trait emerged to help our species evolve into the species we know of as homo sapiens today. And each of those vignettes is interesting, fully explained, and will leave the lay-reader with a thorough understanding of how we ended up where we are today.
And then Baxter journeys into our future...
With the same thoroughness, Baxter takes us through various plausibilities, extrapolating the choices we are making as a species today to ignore environmental degradation, civil unrest, aggression, and carries our species forward into the distant future, building upon the framework he built in the first half of the book to get us where we are evolutionarily speaking today, to show us where we are headed in the future ... and it is not pretty.
This book stayed with me for a long time after I read it.
4 Evolutionary Monkeys
January 22, 2008
Having read Baxter's Manifold: Time, I wasn't expecting much characterization or plot (as is the case in much "hard sci-fi"). Strangely, some of the non-human characters of Evolution were a lot more real than some of the human ones (If you liked the squid in Manifold:Time, you'll probably like Evolution). The book is longer than it had to be, but the 15 or so stories were mostly worthwhile. At times the "genes working to survive" theme was too explicit and overdone (let the reader's intelligence do *some* work!) and was more like reading Richard Dawkins than reading a novel, but overall this was an engrossing and educational fictionalization of evolutionary history. I liked the speculative parts (which is why one should read sci-fi, after all!): the air-whales, intelligent dinosaurs, post-human descendents and especially the self-replicating robots on Mars, which provided a nice counter-point to the story on Earth while strengthening the overall theme of evolution. If you think evolution is the slightest bit interesting and have a bit of imagination, I'd recommend this book.
July 25, 2008
I really loved this book. This is a phenomenal look into the history and potential future of our species. While science fiction, is based on sound principles and a good knowledge of real human prehistory.
I made this book required reading for a course I taught, Introduction to Human Evolution. This raised more than a few eyebrows. My reason for this was that he illustrates some of the more important yet lesser known aspects of evolution and human biology. I noticed one reviewer found the 'devolution' of humans in the future to be implausible. This here is exactly one of the misconceptions of evolution I wished my students to read and discuss (evolution is not some upward march of progress, big brains are suitable now but may not be the optimal solution for the future).
I made this book required reading for a course I taught, Introduction to Human Evolution. This raised more than a few eyebrows. My reason for this was that he illustrates some of the more important yet lesser known aspects of evolution and human biology. I noticed one reviewer found the 'devolution' of humans in the future to be implausible. This here is exactly one of the misconceptions of evolution I wished my students to read and discuss (evolution is not some upward march of progress, big brains are suitable now but may not be the optimal solution for the future).
February 22, 2010
This book is the clearest understanding I have ever had on the eons-long process of evolution, told in a fascinating novel from each creature's point of view from millions of years ago. I couldn't put this book down! The amazing settings bring each geologic age to life again, as it was when it happened. This author must have a prodigious science background and great imagination. This book is perfect for anyone with an interest in ancient and pre-historic history, geology, geography and sociology.
May 6, 2012
A great read -not in the least for its 762 pages- taking you from 145 Million years ago (chapter two) to 500 Million years in the future. It describes, in speculative fiction way, the upcoming and downfall of Man. From sentient dinosaurs to sentient trees. It is not -as the author himself says in the afterword- a textbook, but a plausable grand story of human evolution, in the vein of Olaf Stapledon's
October 2, 2013
賲賱丨賲丞 乇賵丕卅賷丞 丨賯賷賯賷丞 鬲賯毓 賮賷 800 氐賮丨丞, 鬲爻賷乇 亘賳丕 亘丕賱乇丨賱丞 丕賱鬲胤賵乇賷丞 賱賱丨賷丕丞 毓賱賶 丕賱賰乇丞 丕賱兀乇囟賷丞 賵 丕賱鬲睾賷乇丕鬲 丕賱噩賷賵賱賵噩賷丞 丕賱鬲賷 卮賴丿鬲賴丕 亘丕賱廿囟丕賮丞 賱賱鬲鬲睾賷乇丕鬲 丕賱賰賵夭賲賵賱賵噩賷丞 丕賱鬲賷 乇丕賮賯鬲 丕賱丨賷丕丞 毓賱賶 丕賱兀乇囟, 乇賵丕賷丞 乇丕卅毓丞 鬲賳鬲賯賱 亘賳丕 亘卮睾賮 賲賳 亘丿丕賷丕鬲 丕賱鬲賰賵賳 丕賱兀丨賷丕卅賷 毓賱賶 丕賱兀乇囟 賲乇賵乇丕 亘賲匕賳亘 卮賷賰卮賵賱賵亘 丕賱匕賷 囟乇亘 丕賱兀乇囟 賯亘賱 65 賲賱賷賵賳 毓丕賲 賵 賯囟賶 毓賱賶 兀賰鬲乇 賲賳 70 亘丕賱賲卅丞 賲賳 丕賱丕賳賵丕毓 丕賱丨賷丞, 乇丨賱丞 鬲賳鬲賴賷 亘賲爻鬲賯亘賱 丕賱丨賷丕丞 毓賱賶 丕賱兀乇囟 亘毓丿 丨賵丕賱賷 500 賲賱賷賵賳, 賱賳 兀匕賰乇 鬲賮丕氐賷賱 兀禺乇賶 丨鬲賶 賱丕 兀丨乇賯 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賱賲賳 賷乇睾亘 亘賯乇丕卅鬲賴丕
January 5, 2021
Hat mir anfangs viel Spa脽 gemacht. Man merkt, dass sich der Autor sehr viel mit dem Thema Evolution und unserer Ur-Geschichte besch盲ftigt hat. Dabei ist ein fast 1000-seitiger Klotz herausgekommen; Evolution ben枚tigt halt Zeit ;-)
Leider 盲hneln sich die Episoden irgendwann, da es eben um das 脺berleben der jeweiligen Spezies geht; egal welches Erdzeitalter.
Den ersten zweidrittel des Buches h盲tten gut 200 Seiten weniger gut getan; bzw. h盲tte der letzte Teil des Buches - die Zukunft der Menschheit - gro脽z眉giger ausfallen k枚nnen.
4 * halte ich f眉r durchaus angebracht.
Leider 盲hneln sich die Episoden irgendwann, da es eben um das 脺berleben der jeweiligen Spezies geht; egal welches Erdzeitalter.
Den ersten zweidrittel des Buches h盲tten gut 200 Seiten weniger gut getan; bzw. h盲tte der letzte Teil des Buches - die Zukunft der Menschheit - gro脽z眉giger ausfallen k枚nnen.
4 * halte ich f眉r durchaus angebracht.
December 19, 2014
A good book but about 100 pages too long. The author dramatized mammalian evolution from the time of the dinosaurs until a future hundreds of millions of years from now. Having watched Cosmos this summer, I have been thinking about the incomprehensible spans of time that have passed since the formation of the universe, and since life began on this planet. Evolution serves as a reminder of just how brief our species' time in the sun really has been, and what remarkable arrogance human beings display when trying to explain the cosmos to each other.
Climate change, volcanoes, asteroids and comets...over the history of our world, these events have hit the reset button over and over again. Hundreds of thousands of species have come into being, thrived, then vanished into oblivion. We are no different. In the eyes of earth, we are a minor flash in the pan. In the eyes of the cosmos, we are less than a speck of dust. And when we are gone..."there will come soft rains..."
A good and troubling book. Bleak, I guess, but honest. I was struck by how much of what I was reading about I had learned in college--astronomy, biology, evolution, etc.--but then forgot because they are not things that I really think about on a day to day basis. Science keeps me very humble.
Climate change, volcanoes, asteroids and comets...over the history of our world, these events have hit the reset button over and over again. Hundreds of thousands of species have come into being, thrived, then vanished into oblivion. We are no different. In the eyes of earth, we are a minor flash in the pan. In the eyes of the cosmos, we are less than a speck of dust. And when we are gone..."there will come soft rains..."
A good and troubling book. Bleak, I guess, but honest. I was struck by how much of what I was reading about I had learned in college--astronomy, biology, evolution, etc.--but then forgot because they are not things that I really think about on a day to day basis. Science keeps me very humble.
December 22, 2014
賰鬲丕亘 乇丕卅毓 賷噩亘 兀賳 賷賯乇兀 賲賳 丕賱噩賲賷毓 賮賴賵 賯丿 賷爻丕毓丿 毓賱賶 鬲賵爻賷毓 丨賷夭 丕賱賯亘賵賱 賱毓賱賲 丕賱鬲胤賵乇 賮賷 毓賯賵賱 亘毓囟 丕賱賳丕爻 睾賷乇 丕賱賯丕丿乇丞 亘毓丿 毓賱賶 丕爻鬲毓丕亘 丕賱兀賲乇.
鬲睾賷乇鬲 兀賮賰丕乇賷 丨賵賱 鬲氐賳賷賮 賴匕丕 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 亘鬲睾賷乇 賮氐賵賱賴貙 丕毓鬲賯丿鬲 賮賷 亘丕丿亍 丕賱兀賲乇 廿賳賴 乇賵丕賷丞 賱賰賳 亘丿賱鬲 乇兀賷賷 毓賱賶 廿賳賴 賰鬲丕亘 毓賱賵賲 賲禺氐氐 亘毓賱賲 丕賱鬲胤賵乇貙 賵 賲賳 孬賲 賰鬲丕亘 鬲丕乇賷禺 賷鬲丨丿孬 毓賳 鬲丕乇賷禺 丕賱丨賷丕丞 亘卮賰賱 毓丕賲 賵 鬲丕乇賷禺 丕賱丕賳爻丕賳 亘卮賰賱 禺丕氐 賵 賱賰賳賷 睾賷乇鬲 乇兀賷 賲乇丞 丕禺乇賶 賱丕噩丿賴 毓亘丕乇丞 毓賳 賰鬲丕亘 禺賷丕賱 毓賱賲賷 賲賲賷夭貙 賯亘賱 兀賳 兀毓賵丿 廿賱賶 丕賱乇兀賷 丕賱兀賵賱 毓賱賶 廿賳賴 乇賵丕賷丞. 賱賰賳賴 乇賵丕賷丞 鬲囟賲 賰賱 賲丕 爻亘賯 賲賳 賲毓賱賵賲丕鬲 賵 賲鬲毓丞 賵 鬲卮賵賷賷賯 賵 禺賷丕賱 噩賲賷毓賴丕 賲賰鬲賵亘丞 亘胤乇賷賯丞 噩賷丿丞 賵 賯丿 鬲賰賵賳 乇丕卅毓丞 賮賷 亘毓囟 丕賱賮氐賵賱.
兀賲丕 賵 賱賲賳 賷噩丿賴 胤賵賷賱 (800 氐賮丨丞) 賷賲賰賳 賱賴匕丕 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 兀賳 賷賯乇亍 毓賱賶 賯爻賲賷賳: 毓氐賵乇 賯亘賱 賵噩賵丿 "丕賱亘卮乇" 賵 丕賱毓氐賵乇 "丕賱亘卮乇賷丞" 賵 賲丕 亘毓丿賴丕貙 毓賱賶 兀賳賴 賷賮囟賱 兀賳 賱丕 賷賮氐賱 亘賷賳賴賲丕 兀賰孬乇 賲賳 毓丿丞 兀賷丕賲.
賵噩賵丿 賰孬賷乇 賲賳 兀爻賲丕亍 丕賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲 丕賱賲鬲睾賷乇丞 賲毓 賰賱 賮氐賱 噩丿賷丿 賯丿 賷賰賵賳 兀賲乇丕賸 賲夭毓噩 賵 賱賰賳 賱丕 亘丿 賲賳 匕賱賰 賱丕賳賴丕 乇賵丕賷丞 鬲鬲賰賱賲 毓賳 賲賱丕賷賷賳 賵 賲賱丕賷賷賳 賲賳 丕賱爻賳賷賳. 兀賷囟丕賸 賱賲 鬲毓噩亘賳賷 胤乇賷賯丞 鬲乇噩賲丞 亘毓囟 丕賱賮賯乇丕鬲 -賵 賴賷 賯賱賷賱丞 賳爻亘賷丕賸- 賱賲 鬲賮賯丿 賲毓賳丕賴丕 賮賷 賲毓馗賲賴丕 賱賰賳 賰丕賳鬲 賲卮鬲鬲丞 賱毓賲賱賷丞 丕賱賯乇丕亍丞.
鬲睾賷乇鬲 兀賮賰丕乇賷 丨賵賱 鬲氐賳賷賮 賴匕丕 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 亘鬲睾賷乇 賮氐賵賱賴貙 丕毓鬲賯丿鬲 賮賷 亘丕丿亍 丕賱兀賲乇 廿賳賴 乇賵丕賷丞 賱賰賳 亘丿賱鬲 乇兀賷賷 毓賱賶 廿賳賴 賰鬲丕亘 毓賱賵賲 賲禺氐氐 亘毓賱賲 丕賱鬲胤賵乇貙 賵 賲賳 孬賲 賰鬲丕亘 鬲丕乇賷禺 賷鬲丨丿孬 毓賳 鬲丕乇賷禺 丕賱丨賷丕丞 亘卮賰賱 毓丕賲 賵 鬲丕乇賷禺 丕賱丕賳爻丕賳 亘卮賰賱 禺丕氐 賵 賱賰賳賷 睾賷乇鬲 乇兀賷 賲乇丞 丕禺乇賶 賱丕噩丿賴 毓亘丕乇丞 毓賳 賰鬲丕亘 禺賷丕賱 毓賱賲賷 賲賲賷夭貙 賯亘賱 兀賳 兀毓賵丿 廿賱賶 丕賱乇兀賷 丕賱兀賵賱 毓賱賶 廿賳賴 乇賵丕賷丞. 賱賰賳賴 乇賵丕賷丞 鬲囟賲 賰賱 賲丕 爻亘賯 賲賳 賲毓賱賵賲丕鬲 賵 賲鬲毓丞 賵 鬲卮賵賷賷賯 賵 禺賷丕賱 噩賲賷毓賴丕 賲賰鬲賵亘丞 亘胤乇賷賯丞 噩賷丿丞 賵 賯丿 鬲賰賵賳 乇丕卅毓丞 賮賷 亘毓囟 丕賱賮氐賵賱.
兀賲丕 賵 賱賲賳 賷噩丿賴 胤賵賷賱 (800 氐賮丨丞) 賷賲賰賳 賱賴匕丕 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 兀賳 賷賯乇亍 毓賱賶 賯爻賲賷賳: 毓氐賵乇 賯亘賱 賵噩賵丿 "丕賱亘卮乇" 賵 丕賱毓氐賵乇 "丕賱亘卮乇賷丞" 賵 賲丕 亘毓丿賴丕貙 毓賱賶 兀賳賴 賷賮囟賱 兀賳 賱丕 賷賮氐賱 亘賷賳賴賲丕 兀賰孬乇 賲賳 毓丿丞 兀賷丕賲.
賵噩賵丿 賰孬賷乇 賲賳 兀爻賲丕亍 丕賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲 丕賱賲鬲睾賷乇丞 賲毓 賰賱 賮氐賱 噩丿賷丿 賯丿 賷賰賵賳 兀賲乇丕賸 賲夭毓噩 賵 賱賰賳 賱丕 亘丿 賲賳 匕賱賰 賱丕賳賴丕 乇賵丕賷丞 鬲鬲賰賱賲 毓賳 賲賱丕賷賷賳 賵 賲賱丕賷賷賳 賲賳 丕賱爻賳賷賳. 兀賷囟丕賸 賱賲 鬲毓噩亘賳賷 胤乇賷賯丞 鬲乇噩賲丞 亘毓囟 丕賱賮賯乇丕鬲 -賵 賴賷 賯賱賷賱丞 賳爻亘賷丕賸- 賱賲 鬲賮賯丿 賲毓賳丕賴丕 賮賷 賲毓馗賲賴丕 賱賰賳 賰丕賳鬲 賲卮鬲鬲丞 賱毓賲賱賷丞 丕賱賯乇丕亍丞.
December 17, 2010
One of my favorite books (if not my favorite)! I am fascinated by evolution and history in general and evolution itself could be considered to be the main character of this book. Of course, this book is fiction, but it takes your imagination to what could very well have happened between 65 million years ago an now, and what could happen between now and 500 million years in the future.
October 27, 2015
Traces that river of DNA out of Eden and into the dry sands. I don't think of myself as a human chauvinist, and yet I mourned when that last individual manifestation of DNA that was recognizably human slipped back into the churning evolutionary waters. A powerful and unsettling meditation on cooperation, competition and change.
Well worth the time.
Well worth the time.
October 17, 2015
丕賱禺賲爻 賳噩賲丕鬲 賱賷爻 賱兀賳賴 兀賯賳毓賳賷 亘丕賱鬲胤賵乇 賵賱丕 兀賳賴 卮乇丨 賱賷 賲丕 睾丕亘 賯亘賱丕賸 ..
丕賱禺賲爻 賳噩賲丕鬲 賱賱禺賷丕賱 丕賱乇賵丕卅賷 丕賱睾賷乇 賲賯賷丿 賵丕賱睾賷乇 賲丨丿賵丿 兀亘丿丕賸 丕賱匕賷 賷賲鬲賱賰 亘丕賰爻鬲乇 ...
毓賱賲賷丕 貙 賴賳丕賰 丕賱毓丿賷丿 賲賳 丕賱爻賯胤丕鬲 丕賱睾賷乇 賲賳胤賯賷丞 賵睾賷乇賴丕 賵丕賱賰丕鬲亘 賳賮爻賴 賷毓鬲乇賮 兀賳 丕賱賲賵囟賵毓 丕賱匕賷 賰鬲亘賴 賱賷爻 毓賱賲賷丕 亘丿乇噩丞 賲丕卅丞 賮賷 丕賱賲丕卅丞 ..
賱賰賳 禺賷丕賱賴 賮賷 丕賱賰鬲丕亘丞 賵丕賱鬲賮賰乇 賲購胤賱賯 .. 賷購丨爻丿 毓賱賷賴
丕賱禺賲爻 賳噩賲丕鬲 賱賱禺賷丕賱 丕賱乇賵丕卅賷 丕賱睾賷乇 賲賯賷丿 賵丕賱睾賷乇 賲丨丿賵丿 兀亘丿丕賸 丕賱匕賷 賷賲鬲賱賰 亘丕賰爻鬲乇 ...
毓賱賲賷丕 貙 賴賳丕賰 丕賱毓丿賷丿 賲賳 丕賱爻賯胤丕鬲 丕賱睾賷乇 賲賳胤賯賷丞 賵睾賷乇賴丕 賵丕賱賰丕鬲亘 賳賮爻賴 賷毓鬲乇賮 兀賳 丕賱賲賵囟賵毓 丕賱匕賷 賰鬲亘賴 賱賷爻 毓賱賲賷丕 亘丿乇噩丞 賲丕卅丞 賮賷 丕賱賲丕卅丞 ..
賱賰賳 禺賷丕賱賴 賮賷 丕賱賰鬲丕亘丞 賵丕賱鬲賮賰乇 賲購胤賱賯 .. 賷購丨爻丿 毓賱賷賴
September 3, 2016
"丕賱鬲胤賵乇" 賲賱丨賲丞 爻鬲賷賮賳 亘丕賰爻鬲乇 丕賱乇賵丕卅賷丞 貙 鬲賯毓 賮賷 侑侉佴 氐賮丨丞 貙 鬲爻鬲賳丿 毓賱賶 乇丐賶 毓賱賲賷丞 毓賳 賳馗乇賷丞 丕賱鬲胤賵乇 賵 丕賱丕賳鬲禺丕亘 丕賱胤亘賷毓賷 .
賷氐賮 賮賷賴丕 亘丕賰爻鬲乇 爻賱爻賱丞 鬲胤賵乇 丕賱丕賳爻丕賳 亘丿丕賷丞 賲賳 丕賵賱賶 丕賱孬丿賷丕鬲 丕賱亘丿丕卅賷丞 丕賱囟毓賷賮丞 丕賱鬲賷 爻賰賳鬲 丕賱丕乇囟 賲賳匕 佴佶 賲賱賷賵賳 爻賳丞 (丕賱毓氐乇 丕賱胤亘丕卮賷乇賷) 丨賷孬 賰丕賳鬲 (亘丕賳噩賷丕) 丕賱賯丕乇丞 丕賱丕賲 丕賱丕賵賱賶 賵 丕賱賵丨賷丿丞 毓賱賶 丕賱丕乇囟 .
賷賲賳丨 亘丕賰爻鬲乇 賰賱 賲賯胤毓 夭賲賳賷 賲賳 鬲丕乇賷禺 丕賱鬲胤賵乇 噩夭亍丕 賮賷 乇賵丕賷鬲賴 貙 賵 賷賱禺氐 賰賱 賳賵毓 賲賳 丕賱丨賷賵丕賳丕鬲 賮賷 爻賱爻賱丞 鬲胤賵乇 丕賱丕賳爻丕賳 賮賷 賰丕卅賳 賵丕丨丿 賷賲賳丨賴 丕爻賲丕 賲賳 丕噩賱 丕賱賲丨丕賰丕丞 丕賱乇賲夭賷丞 .
賮兀賵賱 賰丕卅賳 賮賷 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賴賵 (亘乇噩丕) 貙 丕賳孬賶 亘乇噩丕鬲賵乇賷氐 貙 毓丕卮鬲 賮賷 丕賱毓氐乇 丕賱胤亘丕卮賷乇賷 貙 佴佶 賲賱賷賵賳 爻賳丞
鬲卮亘賴 丕賱噩乇匕丕賳 賱賰賳賴丕 賰亘賷乇丞 . 毓丕卮鬲 賲毓 丕賱丿賷賳丕氐賵乇丕鬲 賯亘賱 兀賳 鬲賳賯乇囟 賵 賯丕賵賲鬲 卮鬲賶 丕賱馗乇賵賮 賲賳 丕噩賱 丕賱亘賯丕亍 貙 賵 賲賳 亘乇噩丕 爻賷兀鬲賷 丕賱亘卮乇 .
佗. (亘賱賷爻賷) 丕賳孬賶 亘賱賷爻賷丕丿亘賷丿 貙 賲賳 賳爻賱 亘乇噩丕 貙 鬲卮亘賴 丕賱爻賳噩丕亘 貙 毓丕卮鬲 賲丕 亘毓丿 爻賯賵胤 賲匕賳亘 匕賷賱 丕賱卮賷胤丕賳 (鬲卮賷賰賵卮賵賱賵亘) 貙 丕賱丨丿孬 丕賱賴丕賲 丕賱匕賷 丕丿賶 丕賱賶 丕賳賯乇丕囟 丕毓丿丕丿 賴丕卅賱丞 賲賳 丕賱賰丕卅賳丕鬲 賮賷 胤賱賷毓鬲賴丕 丕賱丨賵鬲 丕賱胤丕卅乇 賵 丕賱丿賷賳丕氐賵乇丕鬲 賵 丕賱夭賵丕丨賮 貙 賯亘賱 佴伲 賲賱賷賵賳 鬲賯乇賷亘丕 .
伲. (賳賵孬) 匕賰乇 賲賳 賳賵毓 賳賵孬乇賰鬲賵爻 貙 賮氐賷賱丞 丕賱丕丿丕亘賷丿 .. 佶侑 賲賱賷賵賳 爻賳丞 貙 賷卮亘賴 丕賱賯乇賵丿 丕賱賴賳丿賷丞 貙 賱賰賳賴 賱賷爻 賯乇丿丕 .
鬲賲鬲丕夭 亘賵噩賵丿 丕賱賲禺丕賱亘 .
伽. (乇賵賲乇) 丕賳孬賶 賲賳 丕氐賳丕賮 丕賱乇卅賷爻賷賷丕鬲 丕賱 兀賳孬乇賵亘賵賷丿 貙 賵 賴賷 賲賳 丕爻賱丕賮 丕賱賯乇丿丞 毓丿賷賲丞 丕賱匕賷賱 賲孬賱 丕賱卮賲亘丕賳夭賷 賵 丕賱睾賵乇賷賱丕 .
鬲賲鬲丕夭 乇賵賲乇 亘丕爻鬲亘丿丕賱 丕賱賲禺丕賱亘 亘丕賱丕馗丕賮乇 貙 賵 毓賷賵賳賴丕 丕賱鬲賷 鬲乇賶 亘孬賱丕孬 丕亘毓丕丿 貙 賵 丕毓鬲賲丕丿賴丕 毓賱賶 丕賱亘氐乇 亘丿賱丕 賲賳 丕賱卮賲 賮賷 睾匕丕卅賴丕 賵 丨賷丕鬲賴丕.
佶. (賰丕亘賵) 賰丕卅賳 賷卮亘賴 丕賱卮賲亘丕賳夭賷 貙 賱賰賳 賱賷爻 賴賳丕賰 卮賲亘丕賳夭賷 亘毓丿 .. 賲賳匕 佶 賲賱丕賷賷賳 爻賳丞 .. 賵 賴賵 噩丿 丕賱噩賳爻 丕賱亘卮乇賷 .
佴. (賮丕乇) 賯亘賱 佟.佶 賲賱賷賵賳 .. 賵 賴賵 賲賳 丕賱賴賵賲賷賳賷丿 Hominid (卮亘賷賴 丕賱丕賳爻丕賳) .. 賰丕卅賳丕鬲 丕卮亘賴 亘丕賱丕賳爻丕賳 賲賳 丨賷孬 丕賱卮賰賱 貙 賱賰賳 賵毓賷賴丕 賲丨丿賵丿 貙 賮毓賯賵賱 賰亘丕乇 丕賱賴賵賲賷賳賷丿 鬲毓丕丿賱 賮賷 鬲毓賯賷丿賴丕 丕賳爻丕賳丕 賮賷 丕賱禺丕賲爻丞 賲賳 毓賲乇賴 .. 賰丕賳鬲 賰丕卅賳丕鬲 賵丕賯賮丞 貙 鬲爻鬲毓賲賱 丕賱賮丐賵爻 貙 賵 賯丕丿乇丞 毓賱賶 丕氐丿丕乇 亘毓囟 丕賱賰賱賲丕鬲 賰賱睾丞
侑. (亘亘賱) 賰賷賳賷丕 貙 佟佗侑 丕賱賮 爻賳丞 賯亘賱 丕賱丕賳 貙 賵 賴賵 丕賱丕賳爻丕賳 丕賱賳賷丕賳丿乇孬丕賱 貙 丕賲鬲丕夭 亘丕賱賯賵丞 賵 氐睾乇 丨噩賲 丕賱丿賲丕睾 .. 毓丕卮 賮賷 丕賱賰賴賵賮 賵 鬲夭丕賵噩 賲毓 丕賳孬賶 賴賵賲賷賳賷丿 賲賳 賳賵毓 丕匕賰賶 賲賳賴 賮丕賳鬲噩賵丕 噩賷賱丕 賲鬲賵爻胤丕 賮賷 丕賱賯賵丞 賵 丕賱匕賰丕亍 .
丕賲鬲丕夭鬲 賴匕賴 丕賱賲乇丨賱丞 亘丕賱賯鬲賱 賵 丕賱賴賲噩賷丞 亘賷賳 丕賯賵丕賲 丕賱賴賵賲賷賳賷丿 貙 賵 鬲賲 賮賷賴丕 丕亘鬲賰丕乇 賵 丕賰鬲卮丕賮 亘毓囟 丕賱丕爻賱丨丞 賵丕賱丕丿賵丕鬲 賰丕賱丕賳鬲賯丕賱 賮賷 丕賱亘丨賷乇丕鬲 亘丕爻鬲禺丿丕賲 丕賱噩匕賵毓 貙 賵 丕爻鬲禺丿丕賲 丕賱賳丕乇 賮賷 丕賱胤賴賷 貙 賮丕氐亘丨鬲 噩匕賵乇 丕爻賳丕賳賴賲 丕氐睾乇 丨噩賲丕 .
卮賴丿鬲 賴匕賴 丕賱賮鬲乇丞 丕賵賱賶 毓賲賱賷丕鬲 丕賱鬲亘丕丿賱 丕賱鬲噩丕乇賷 貙 丕賱賲賯丕賷囟丞 貙 賵 鬲胤賵乇鬲 毓賱丕賯丕鬲 丕賱賴賵賲賷賳賷丿 亘爻亘亘 丕賱賲賯丕賷囟丞 .
侃. (賲丕匕乇) 佴贍 丕賱賮 爻賳丞 賯亘賱 丕賱丕賳 貙 丕賱氐丨乇丕亍 丕賱賰亘乇賶 貙 卮賲丕賱 丕賮乇賷賯賷丕 貙 丕賲 丕賱亘卮乇 .
賵 賴賷 鬲卮亘賴 丕賱亘卮乇 丕賱丨丕賱賷賷賳 賰孬賷乇丕 賲賳 賳丕丨賷丞 丕賱賵噩賴 賵 丕賱丕爻鬲賯丕賲丞 賵 亘賯賷丞 鬲賮丕氐賷賱 丕賱噩爻賲 貙 賰丕賱丕乇丿丕賮 丕賱賲賲鬲賱卅丞 賱賱鬲賰賷賮 賲毓 賮鬲乇丕鬲 丕賱噩賮丕賮 丕賱胤賵賷賱丞 丕賱鬲賷 鬲鬲胤賱亘 鬲禺夭賷賳 丕賱賲賷丕賴 賮賷 丕賱丿賴賵賳 .
賵 賴賷 匕丕鬲 毓賯賱賷丞 賲鬲胤賵乇丞 貙 賯丕丿乇丞 毓賱賶 丕賱賰卮賮 毓賳 丕賱毓賱丕賯丕鬲 丕賱爻亘亘賷丞 貙 賵 丕爻鬲禺丿丕賲 丕賱賱睾丞 貙 賱賰賳 賴匕丕 丕賱鬲胤賵乇 噩賱亘 賱賴丕 賳賵毓丕 賲賳 丕賱卮賰 丕賱賯賴乇賷 .
賵 賰丕賳鬲 丿丕卅賲丕 賲氐丕亘丞 亘丕賳賵丕毓 丌賱丕賲 丕賱乇兀爻 丕賱賲禺鬲賱賮丞 貙 賰丕賱氐丿丕毓 丕賱賳氐賮賷 賵 睾賷乇賴丕 貙 賴匕賴 丕賱丕賱丕賲 賰丕賳鬲 囟乇賷亘丞 賱鬲胤賵乇 丿賲丕睾賴丕 .
丕爻鬲禺丿賲鬲 賲丕匕乇 丕賱卮亘丕賰 賵 丕賱賳氐賱 賮賷 丕賱氐賷丿 .
賰丕賳鬲 賮鬲乇丞 賲丕匕乇 亘丿丕賷丞 鬲賰賵賳 丕賱毓卮賷乇丞 貙 丨賷孬 賷噩鬲賲毓 丕賱丕賮乇丕丿 賵 賷乇鬲丨賱賵賳 亘丨孬丕 毓賳 丕賱胤毓丕賲 .
佟贍. 丕賱丕禺賵丕賳 (廿噩丕賳 賵 鬲賵乇) 賮賷 卮亘賴 噩夭賷乇丞 丕賳丿賵賳賷爻賷丕 賲賳匕 賯乇丕亘丞 佶佗 丕賱賮 爻賳丞 貙 賵 賴賲丕 賲賳 爻賱丕賱丕鬲 賴丕噩乇鬲 賲賳 丕賮乇賷賯賷丕 丕賱賶 丕爻賷丕 賵 卮鬲賶 丕賳丨丕亍 丕賱賲毓賲賵乇丞 .
賮賷 毓氐乇賴賲 鬲胤賵乇鬲 丕賱賱睾丞 賵 丕賱孬賯丕賮丞 亘爻乇毓丞 賵 丕氐亘丨鬲丕 丕賰孬乇 鬲毓賯賷丿丕 .
賴丕噩乇 丕賱亘卮乇 賲賳 丕爻賷丕 丕賱賶 丕爻鬲乇丕賱賷丕 亘賵丕爻胤丞 丕賱夭賵丕乇賯 毓賳丿 賴匕賴 丕賱賮鬲乇丞 亘丕賱鬲丨丿賷丿 .
亘毓丿 賴匕丕 賷丕禺匕賳丕 亘丕賰爻鬲乇 賮賷 爻賱爻賱丞 賲賳 丕賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲 賮賷 丕夭賲丕賳 賲禺鬲賱賮丞 賷卮乇丨 賮賷賴丕 賰賷賮 鬲賰賵賳鬲 丕賳賲丕胤 丕賱孬賯丕賮丕鬲 丕賱亘丿丕卅賷丞 賱賱丕賳爻丕賳 貙 賮丕賱卮丕賲丕賳 賲孬賱丕 賴賵 丿賷賳 亘丿丕卅賷 睾丕賷鬲賴 丕賱毓賱丕噩 貙 賷爻鬲禺丿賲 賮賷賴 丕賱卮丕賲丕賳賵賷賵賳 丕賱爻丨乇 賵 胤乇賯 丕禺乇賶 賮賷 毓賱丕噩 丕賱賲乇囟賶 .
孬賲 鬲鬲賰卮賮 丕賵賱賶 丕賳鬲賯丕賱丕鬲 胤乇賯 丕賱毓賷卮 賲賳 丕賱丕毓鬲賲丕丿 毓賱賶 丕賱氐賷丿 丕賱賶 丕賱丕毓鬲賲丕丿 毓賱賶 丕賱夭乇丕毓丞 賵 乇毓賷 丕賱丨賷賵丕賳丕鬲 卮丕乇丨丕 賰賷賮 賲丕乇爻 丕賱亘卮乇 賮賷 毓氐賵乇 賲丕 賯亘賱 丕賱鬲丕乇賷禺 丕賳鬲賯丕亍 賱賱丕賳賵丕毓 丕賱賲賮囟賱丞 賱賱丕賳爻丕賳 丿賵賳 賵毓賷 賲賳賴賲 .
賰丕賳 匕賱賰 賯亘賱 侃贍贍贍 爻賳丞 鬲賯乇賷亘丕 賮賷 亘賱丕丿 丕賱丕賳丕馗賵賱 .
亘毓丿賴丕 賷丕禺匕賳丕 亘丕賰爻乇 賮賷 賯氐氐 賲禺鬲賱賮丞 鬲乇賵賷 氐賮丕鬲 賵 賲賱丕賲丨 毓氐賵乇 賲禺鬲賱賮丞 賲賳 鬲丕乇賷禺 丕賱丕賳爻丕賳 丕賱丨丿賷孬 賵氐賵賱丕 丕賱賶 賮鬲乇丞 爻賷丕丿丞 乇賵賲丕 亘毓丿 賲賷賱丕丿 丕賱賲爻賷丨 .
賷賳鬲賯賱 亘毓丿賴丕 丕賱賶 賮鬲乇丕鬲 賲爻鬲賯亘賱賷丞 賲賮鬲乇馗丞 貙 賵丕氐賮丕 賮賷賴丕 賲丕 爻賷丨丿孬 賱賱亘卮乇 亘毓丿 毓卮乇丕鬲 丕賱爻賳賷賳 賲賳 丕賱丕賳 貙 亘賱 亘毓丿 佶贍贍 賲賱賷賵賳 爻賳丞 !.
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丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賱賷爻鬲 賲乇噩毓丕 毓賱賲賷丕 賰賲丕 賯丕賱 亘丕賰爻鬲乇 賳賮爻賴 貙 賱賰賳賴丕 胤乇賷賯丞 賮賳賷丞 鬲乇爻賲 賱賵丨丞 賱賱鬲丕乇賷禺 丕賱鬲胤賵乇賷 賱賱丕賳爻丕賳 .
賲丕 賷毓丕亘 毓賱賶 丕賱乇丕賵賷 賴賵 丕賱丕爻賴丕亘 丕賱賲賲賱 噩丿丕 貙 賵 丕賱鬲胤乇賯 丕賱賶 賲賵丕囟賷毓 睾賷乇 賲賴賲丞 賰孬賷乇丞 貙 賮賯丿 賰丕賳 賲賲賰賳丕 兀賳 鬲賰鬲亘 賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 亘 伲贍贍 氐賮丨丞 亘丿賱丕 賲賳 侑侉佴 !.
賵 賱毓賱 賴匕丕 丕賱禺賱賱 賴賵 賲丕 噩毓賱 賯乇丕亍丞 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 毓賲賱丕 賲噩賴丿丕 賵 氐毓亘丕 賱賱睾丕賷丞 .
賷氐賮 賮賷賴丕 亘丕賰爻鬲乇 爻賱爻賱丞 鬲胤賵乇 丕賱丕賳爻丕賳 亘丿丕賷丞 賲賳 丕賵賱賶 丕賱孬丿賷丕鬲 丕賱亘丿丕卅賷丞 丕賱囟毓賷賮丞 丕賱鬲賷 爻賰賳鬲 丕賱丕乇囟 賲賳匕 佴佶 賲賱賷賵賳 爻賳丞 (丕賱毓氐乇 丕賱胤亘丕卮賷乇賷) 丨賷孬 賰丕賳鬲 (亘丕賳噩賷丕) 丕賱賯丕乇丞 丕賱丕賲 丕賱丕賵賱賶 賵 丕賱賵丨賷丿丞 毓賱賶 丕賱丕乇囟 .
賷賲賳丨 亘丕賰爻鬲乇 賰賱 賲賯胤毓 夭賲賳賷 賲賳 鬲丕乇賷禺 丕賱鬲胤賵乇 噩夭亍丕 賮賷 乇賵丕賷鬲賴 貙 賵 賷賱禺氐 賰賱 賳賵毓 賲賳 丕賱丨賷賵丕賳丕鬲 賮賷 爻賱爻賱丞 鬲胤賵乇 丕賱丕賳爻丕賳 賮賷 賰丕卅賳 賵丕丨丿 賷賲賳丨賴 丕爻賲丕 賲賳 丕噩賱 丕賱賲丨丕賰丕丞 丕賱乇賲夭賷丞 .
賮兀賵賱 賰丕卅賳 賮賷 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賴賵 (亘乇噩丕) 貙 丕賳孬賶 亘乇噩丕鬲賵乇賷氐 貙 毓丕卮鬲 賮賷 丕賱毓氐乇 丕賱胤亘丕卮賷乇賷 貙 佴佶 賲賱賷賵賳 爻賳丞
鬲卮亘賴 丕賱噩乇匕丕賳 賱賰賳賴丕 賰亘賷乇丞 . 毓丕卮鬲 賲毓 丕賱丿賷賳丕氐賵乇丕鬲 賯亘賱 兀賳 鬲賳賯乇囟 賵 賯丕賵賲鬲 卮鬲賶 丕賱馗乇賵賮 賲賳 丕噩賱 丕賱亘賯丕亍 貙 賵 賲賳 亘乇噩丕 爻賷兀鬲賷 丕賱亘卮乇 .
佗. (亘賱賷爻賷) 丕賳孬賶 亘賱賷爻賷丕丿亘賷丿 貙 賲賳 賳爻賱 亘乇噩丕 貙 鬲卮亘賴 丕賱爻賳噩丕亘 貙 毓丕卮鬲 賲丕 亘毓丿 爻賯賵胤 賲匕賳亘 匕賷賱 丕賱卮賷胤丕賳 (鬲卮賷賰賵卮賵賱賵亘) 貙 丕賱丨丿孬 丕賱賴丕賲 丕賱匕賷 丕丿賶 丕賱賶 丕賳賯乇丕囟 丕毓丿丕丿 賴丕卅賱丞 賲賳 丕賱賰丕卅賳丕鬲 賮賷 胤賱賷毓鬲賴丕 丕賱丨賵鬲 丕賱胤丕卅乇 賵 丕賱丿賷賳丕氐賵乇丕鬲 賵 丕賱夭賵丕丨賮 貙 賯亘賱 佴伲 賲賱賷賵賳 鬲賯乇賷亘丕 .
伲. (賳賵孬) 匕賰乇 賲賳 賳賵毓 賳賵孬乇賰鬲賵爻 貙 賮氐賷賱丞 丕賱丕丿丕亘賷丿 .. 佶侑 賲賱賷賵賳 爻賳丞 貙 賷卮亘賴 丕賱賯乇賵丿 丕賱賴賳丿賷丞 貙 賱賰賳賴 賱賷爻 賯乇丿丕 .
鬲賲鬲丕夭 亘賵噩賵丿 丕賱賲禺丕賱亘 .
伽. (乇賵賲乇) 丕賳孬賶 賲賳 丕氐賳丕賮 丕賱乇卅賷爻賷賷丕鬲 丕賱 兀賳孬乇賵亘賵賷丿 貙 賵 賴賷 賲賳 丕爻賱丕賮 丕賱賯乇丿丞 毓丿賷賲丞 丕賱匕賷賱 賲孬賱 丕賱卮賲亘丕賳夭賷 賵 丕賱睾賵乇賷賱丕 .
鬲賲鬲丕夭 乇賵賲乇 亘丕爻鬲亘丿丕賱 丕賱賲禺丕賱亘 亘丕賱丕馗丕賮乇 貙 賵 毓賷賵賳賴丕 丕賱鬲賷 鬲乇賶 亘孬賱丕孬 丕亘毓丕丿 貙 賵 丕毓鬲賲丕丿賴丕 毓賱賶 丕賱亘氐乇 亘丿賱丕 賲賳 丕賱卮賲 賮賷 睾匕丕卅賴丕 賵 丨賷丕鬲賴丕.
佶. (賰丕亘賵) 賰丕卅賳 賷卮亘賴 丕賱卮賲亘丕賳夭賷 貙 賱賰賳 賱賷爻 賴賳丕賰 卮賲亘丕賳夭賷 亘毓丿 .. 賲賳匕 佶 賲賱丕賷賷賳 爻賳丞 .. 賵 賴賵 噩丿 丕賱噩賳爻 丕賱亘卮乇賷 .
佴. (賮丕乇) 賯亘賱 佟.佶 賲賱賷賵賳 .. 賵 賴賵 賲賳 丕賱賴賵賲賷賳賷丿 Hominid (卮亘賷賴 丕賱丕賳爻丕賳) .. 賰丕卅賳丕鬲 丕卮亘賴 亘丕賱丕賳爻丕賳 賲賳 丨賷孬 丕賱卮賰賱 貙 賱賰賳 賵毓賷賴丕 賲丨丿賵丿 貙 賮毓賯賵賱 賰亘丕乇 丕賱賴賵賲賷賳賷丿 鬲毓丕丿賱 賮賷 鬲毓賯賷丿賴丕 丕賳爻丕賳丕 賮賷 丕賱禺丕賲爻丞 賲賳 毓賲乇賴 .. 賰丕賳鬲 賰丕卅賳丕鬲 賵丕賯賮丞 貙 鬲爻鬲毓賲賱 丕賱賮丐賵爻 貙 賵 賯丕丿乇丞 毓賱賶 丕氐丿丕乇 亘毓囟 丕賱賰賱賲丕鬲 賰賱睾丞
侑. (亘亘賱) 賰賷賳賷丕 貙 佟佗侑 丕賱賮 爻賳丞 賯亘賱 丕賱丕賳 貙 賵 賴賵 丕賱丕賳爻丕賳 丕賱賳賷丕賳丿乇孬丕賱 貙 丕賲鬲丕夭 亘丕賱賯賵丞 賵 氐睾乇 丨噩賲 丕賱丿賲丕睾 .. 毓丕卮 賮賷 丕賱賰賴賵賮 賵 鬲夭丕賵噩 賲毓 丕賳孬賶 賴賵賲賷賳賷丿 賲賳 賳賵毓 丕匕賰賶 賲賳賴 賮丕賳鬲噩賵丕 噩賷賱丕 賲鬲賵爻胤丕 賮賷 丕賱賯賵丞 賵 丕賱匕賰丕亍 .
丕賲鬲丕夭鬲 賴匕賴 丕賱賲乇丨賱丞 亘丕賱賯鬲賱 賵 丕賱賴賲噩賷丞 亘賷賳 丕賯賵丕賲 丕賱賴賵賲賷賳賷丿 貙 賵 鬲賲 賮賷賴丕 丕亘鬲賰丕乇 賵 丕賰鬲卮丕賮 亘毓囟 丕賱丕爻賱丨丞 賵丕賱丕丿賵丕鬲 賰丕賱丕賳鬲賯丕賱 賮賷 丕賱亘丨賷乇丕鬲 亘丕爻鬲禺丿丕賲 丕賱噩匕賵毓 貙 賵 丕爻鬲禺丿丕賲 丕賱賳丕乇 賮賷 丕賱胤賴賷 貙 賮丕氐亘丨鬲 噩匕賵乇 丕爻賳丕賳賴賲 丕氐睾乇 丨噩賲丕 .
卮賴丿鬲 賴匕賴 丕賱賮鬲乇丞 丕賵賱賶 毓賲賱賷丕鬲 丕賱鬲亘丕丿賱 丕賱鬲噩丕乇賷 貙 丕賱賲賯丕賷囟丞 貙 賵 鬲胤賵乇鬲 毓賱丕賯丕鬲 丕賱賴賵賲賷賳賷丿 亘爻亘亘 丕賱賲賯丕賷囟丞 .
侃. (賲丕匕乇) 佴贍 丕賱賮 爻賳丞 賯亘賱 丕賱丕賳 貙 丕賱氐丨乇丕亍 丕賱賰亘乇賶 貙 卮賲丕賱 丕賮乇賷賯賷丕 貙 丕賲 丕賱亘卮乇 .
賵 賴賷 鬲卮亘賴 丕賱亘卮乇 丕賱丨丕賱賷賷賳 賰孬賷乇丕 賲賳 賳丕丨賷丞 丕賱賵噩賴 賵 丕賱丕爻鬲賯丕賲丞 賵 亘賯賷丞 鬲賮丕氐賷賱 丕賱噩爻賲 貙 賰丕賱丕乇丿丕賮 丕賱賲賲鬲賱卅丞 賱賱鬲賰賷賮 賲毓 賮鬲乇丕鬲 丕賱噩賮丕賮 丕賱胤賵賷賱丞 丕賱鬲賷 鬲鬲胤賱亘 鬲禺夭賷賳 丕賱賲賷丕賴 賮賷 丕賱丿賴賵賳 .
賵 賴賷 匕丕鬲 毓賯賱賷丞 賲鬲胤賵乇丞 貙 賯丕丿乇丞 毓賱賶 丕賱賰卮賮 毓賳 丕賱毓賱丕賯丕鬲 丕賱爻亘亘賷丞 貙 賵 丕爻鬲禺丿丕賲 丕賱賱睾丞 貙 賱賰賳 賴匕丕 丕賱鬲胤賵乇 噩賱亘 賱賴丕 賳賵毓丕 賲賳 丕賱卮賰 丕賱賯賴乇賷 .
賵 賰丕賳鬲 丿丕卅賲丕 賲氐丕亘丞 亘丕賳賵丕毓 丌賱丕賲 丕賱乇兀爻 丕賱賲禺鬲賱賮丞 貙 賰丕賱氐丿丕毓 丕賱賳氐賮賷 賵 睾賷乇賴丕 貙 賴匕賴 丕賱丕賱丕賲 賰丕賳鬲 囟乇賷亘丞 賱鬲胤賵乇 丿賲丕睾賴丕 .
丕爻鬲禺丿賲鬲 賲丕匕乇 丕賱卮亘丕賰 賵 丕賱賳氐賱 賮賷 丕賱氐賷丿 .
賰丕賳鬲 賮鬲乇丞 賲丕匕乇 亘丿丕賷丞 鬲賰賵賳 丕賱毓卮賷乇丞 貙 丨賷孬 賷噩鬲賲毓 丕賱丕賮乇丕丿 賵 賷乇鬲丨賱賵賳 亘丨孬丕 毓賳 丕賱胤毓丕賲 .
佟贍. 丕賱丕禺賵丕賳 (廿噩丕賳 賵 鬲賵乇) 賮賷 卮亘賴 噩夭賷乇丞 丕賳丿賵賳賷爻賷丕 賲賳匕 賯乇丕亘丞 佶佗 丕賱賮 爻賳丞 貙 賵 賴賲丕 賲賳 爻賱丕賱丕鬲 賴丕噩乇鬲 賲賳 丕賮乇賷賯賷丕 丕賱賶 丕爻賷丕 賵 卮鬲賶 丕賳丨丕亍 丕賱賲毓賲賵乇丞 .
賮賷 毓氐乇賴賲 鬲胤賵乇鬲 丕賱賱睾丞 賵 丕賱孬賯丕賮丞 亘爻乇毓丞 賵 丕氐亘丨鬲丕 丕賰孬乇 鬲毓賯賷丿丕 .
賴丕噩乇 丕賱亘卮乇 賲賳 丕爻賷丕 丕賱賶 丕爻鬲乇丕賱賷丕 亘賵丕爻胤丞 丕賱夭賵丕乇賯 毓賳丿 賴匕賴 丕賱賮鬲乇丞 亘丕賱鬲丨丿賷丿 .
亘毓丿 賴匕丕 賷丕禺匕賳丕 亘丕賰爻鬲乇 賮賷 爻賱爻賱丞 賲賳 丕賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲 賮賷 丕夭賲丕賳 賲禺鬲賱賮丞 賷卮乇丨 賮賷賴丕 賰賷賮 鬲賰賵賳鬲 丕賳賲丕胤 丕賱孬賯丕賮丕鬲 丕賱亘丿丕卅賷丞 賱賱丕賳爻丕賳 貙 賮丕賱卮丕賲丕賳 賲孬賱丕 賴賵 丿賷賳 亘丿丕卅賷 睾丕賷鬲賴 丕賱毓賱丕噩 貙 賷爻鬲禺丿賲 賮賷賴 丕賱卮丕賲丕賳賵賷賵賳 丕賱爻丨乇 賵 胤乇賯 丕禺乇賶 賮賷 毓賱丕噩 丕賱賲乇囟賶 .
孬賲 鬲鬲賰卮賮 丕賵賱賶 丕賳鬲賯丕賱丕鬲 胤乇賯 丕賱毓賷卮 賲賳 丕賱丕毓鬲賲丕丿 毓賱賶 丕賱氐賷丿 丕賱賶 丕賱丕毓鬲賲丕丿 毓賱賶 丕賱夭乇丕毓丞 賵 乇毓賷 丕賱丨賷賵丕賳丕鬲 卮丕乇丨丕 賰賷賮 賲丕乇爻 丕賱亘卮乇 賮賷 毓氐賵乇 賲丕 賯亘賱 丕賱鬲丕乇賷禺 丕賳鬲賯丕亍 賱賱丕賳賵丕毓 丕賱賲賮囟賱丞 賱賱丕賳爻丕賳 丿賵賳 賵毓賷 賲賳賴賲 .
賰丕賳 匕賱賰 賯亘賱 侃贍贍贍 爻賳丞 鬲賯乇賷亘丕 賮賷 亘賱丕丿 丕賱丕賳丕馗賵賱 .
亘毓丿賴丕 賷丕禺匕賳丕 亘丕賰爻乇 賮賷 賯氐氐 賲禺鬲賱賮丞 鬲乇賵賷 氐賮丕鬲 賵 賲賱丕賲丨 毓氐賵乇 賲禺鬲賱賮丞 賲賳 鬲丕乇賷禺 丕賱丕賳爻丕賳 丕賱丨丿賷孬 賵氐賵賱丕 丕賱賶 賮鬲乇丞 爻賷丕丿丞 乇賵賲丕 亘毓丿 賲賷賱丕丿 丕賱賲爻賷丨 .
賷賳鬲賯賱 亘毓丿賴丕 丕賱賶 賮鬲乇丕鬲 賲爻鬲賯亘賱賷丞 賲賮鬲乇馗丞 貙 賵丕氐賮丕 賮賷賴丕 賲丕 爻賷丨丿孬 賱賱亘卮乇 亘毓丿 毓卮乇丕鬲 丕賱爻賳賷賳 賲賳 丕賱丕賳 貙 亘賱 亘毓丿 佶贍贍 賲賱賷賵賳 爻賳丞 !.
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丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賱賷爻鬲 賲乇噩毓丕 毓賱賲賷丕 賰賲丕 賯丕賱 亘丕賰爻鬲乇 賳賮爻賴 貙 賱賰賳賴丕 胤乇賷賯丞 賮賳賷丞 鬲乇爻賲 賱賵丨丞 賱賱鬲丕乇賷禺 丕賱鬲胤賵乇賷 賱賱丕賳爻丕賳 .
賲丕 賷毓丕亘 毓賱賶 丕賱乇丕賵賷 賴賵 丕賱丕爻賴丕亘 丕賱賲賲賱 噩丿丕 貙 賵 丕賱鬲胤乇賯 丕賱賶 賲賵丕囟賷毓 睾賷乇 賲賴賲丞 賰孬賷乇丞 貙 賮賯丿 賰丕賳 賲賲賰賳丕 兀賳 鬲賰鬲亘 賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 亘 伲贍贍 氐賮丨丞 亘丿賱丕 賲賳 侑侉佴 !.
賵 賱毓賱 賴匕丕 丕賱禺賱賱 賴賵 賲丕 噩毓賱 賯乇丕亍丞 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 毓賲賱丕 賲噩賴丿丕 賵 氐毓亘丕 賱賱睾丕賷丞 .
November 11, 2017
Me ha encantado. Entiendo que no es un libro para todo el mundo porque son cientos de datos de biolog铆a y paleontolog铆a, pero la forma novelada de contar la evoluci贸n de nuestra especie y del planeta Tierra en general, desde el principio de los tiempos y hasta m谩s all谩, es maravillosa y nada tediosa. Un gran descubrimiento.
November 3, 2015
This book reminded me in many ways of those Walking With Dinosaurs TV shows. The book is broken up into sections, each set in a different era. So we focus on an early mammal here, a proto-hominid there, and generally span a huge chunk of our planet's history, from the earliest mammals to a distant, speculative future and the eventual extinction of all life. One might almost say that evolution itself is the protagonist of this novel. And it is as novel, not a textbook. Parts of it are pure speculation, though all based on the soundest and latest scientific discoveries, as good SF should be. I've read my share of epic novels, great sprawling timelines full of sweep and scope, but I think Evolution may represent the single greatest timeframe of any that I've read. I found it to be a fascinating and engrossing read.
August 9, 2014
賴匕賴 賴賷 乇賵毓丞 賴匕賴 丕賱賳馗乇丞 廿賱賶 丕賱丨賷丕丞....賮賲賳 亘丿丕賷丕鬲 亘爻賷胤丞 鬲胤賵乇鬲 - 賵 賲丕 夭丕賱鬲 鬲鬲胤賵乇鈥� 兀卮賰丕賱 亘丕乇毓丞 丕賱噩賲丕賱 賱丕 丨氐乇 賱賴丕. 鬲卮丕乇賱夭 丿丕乇賵賷賳
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賲賱丨賲丞 賲丕乇丕孬賵賳賷丞 噩賲賷賱丞 鬲丨賰賷 賯氐丞 鬲胤賵乇 賵 鬲賳賵毓 丕賱丨賷丕丞 毓賱賶 賰賵賰亘賳丕貙 鬲噩賲毓 亘賷賳 丕賱賵丕賯毓 賵 丕賱毓賱賲 賵 丕賱夭賲賳 賵 丕賱禺賷丕賱.
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賲賱丨賲丞 賲丕乇丕孬賵賳賷丞 噩賲賷賱丞 鬲丨賰賷 賯氐丞 鬲胤賵乇 賵 鬲賳賵毓 丕賱丨賷丕丞 毓賱賶 賰賵賰亘賳丕貙 鬲噩賲毓 亘賷賳 丕賱賵丕賯毓 賵 丕賱毓賱賲 賵 丕賱夭賲賳 賵 丕賱禺賷丕賱.
August 9, 2015
wow, such beautiful writing and a wonderfully accurate rendition of prehistory, which puts this book in an undoubtedly hard sci fi genre.
June 4, 2019
袧邪写邪谢懈 薪械褖芯 芯褌 褏褍写芯卸械褋褌胁械薪邪褌邪 谢懈褌械褉邪褌褍褉邪, 泻芯褟褌芯 褖械 锌褉芯褔械褌邪 写芯 泻褉邪褟 薪邪 谐芯写懈薪邪褌邪, 褖械 屑懈 褏邪褉械褋邪 泻芯谢泻芯褌芯 "Evolution" 薪邪 小褌懈胁褗薪 袘邪泻褋褌褗褉. 袝锌懈褔薪邪 懈 锌芯褉邪蟹懈褌械谢薪邪 胁 屑邪褖邪斜懈褌械 褋懈 褌胁芯褉斜邪. 袩褗褉胁邪褌邪 褲 褔邪褋褌 芯斜褉懈褋褍胁邪 械胁芯谢褞褑懈褟褌邪 薪邪 褌芯蟹懈 泻谢芯薪 芯褌 褉邪蟹褉械写邪 薪邪 锌褉懈屑邪褌懈褌械, 锌芯谢芯卸懈谢 胁锌芯褋谢械写褋褌胁懈械 芯褋薪芯胁懈褌械 薪邪 褋芯斜褋褌胁械薪懈褟 薪懈 胁懈写. 袨褌 锌褗褉胁懈褟 锌褉芯褌芯-锌褉懈屑邪褌, 芯斜懈褌邪胁邪谢 蟹械屑懈褌械 薪邪 写薪械褕薪邪 袦芯薪褌邪薪邪 (邪屑械褉懈泻邪薪褋泻懈褟, 邪 薪械 褉芯写薪懈褟 小械胁械褉芯蟹邪锌邪写) 锌褉械写懈 65 屑谢薪. 谐. 懈 褋褌邪薪邪谢 褋胁懈写械褌械谢 薪邪 锌械褌芯褌芯 屑邪褋芯胁芯 懈蟹屑懈褉邪薪械 薪邪 谐褉邪薪懈褑邪褌邪 泻褉械写邪 - 锌邪谢械芯谐械薪, 写芯 芯斜褖懈褟 薪懈 褋 褕懈屑锌邪薪蟹械褌邪褌邪 锌褉邪褉芯写懈褌械谢, 芯褌锌褉邪胁懈谢 胁蟹芯褉 泻褗屑 芯泻褗锌邪薪懈褌械 芯褌 小谢褗薪褑械褌芯 褉邪胁薪懈薪懈 薪邪 懈蟹褌芯褔薪邪 袗褎褉懈泻邪, 60 屑谢薪. 谐. 锌芯-泻褗褋薪芯.
小谢械写胁邪褌 1,5 屑谢薪. 谐. 芯褌 懈褋褌芯褉懈褟褌邪 薪邪 褏芯屑懈薪懈薪懈褌械: 邪薪邪褌芯屑懈褔薪懈褌械 懈 褎懈蟹懈芯谢芯谐懈褔薪懈 锌褉芯屑械薪懈 褋褗锌褗褌褋褌胁邪谢懈 胁褋褟泻邪 薪芯胁邪 斜褉褗薪泻邪 芯褌 褔芯胁械褕泻懈褟 褉芯写, 锌芯褟胁邪褌邪 薪邪 械蟹懈泻, 泻褍谢褌褍褉邪 懈 褉械谢懈谐懈褟, 锌械褔邪谢薪邪褌邪 褋褗写斜邪 薪邪 H. neanderthalensis, 泻褉邪褟 薪邪 锌邪褋褌芯褉邪谢薪懈褟 薪芯屑邪写褋泻懈 卸懈胁芯褌, 褌邪 写芯褉懈 懈 褉邪蟹屑懈褋谢懈褌械 薪邪 褋褌褉邪褋褌械薪 谢褞斜懈褌械谢-锌邪谢械芯薪褌芯谢芯谐 懈 -邪薪褌褉芯锌芯谢芯谐, 胁 锌芯褋谢械写薪懈褌械 写薪懈 薪邪 (袟邪锌邪写薪邪褌邪) 袪懈屑褋泻邪 懈屑锌械褉懈褟. 袣褉邪褟 薪邪 胁褌芯褉邪褌邪 褔邪褋褌 薪懈 锌褉械薪邪褋褟 胁 褋褌芯谢懈褑邪褌邪 薪邪 邪胁褋褌褉邪谢懈泄褋泻邪褌邪 小械胁械褉薪邪 褌械褉懈褌芯褉懈褟, 袛邪褉胁懈薪, 锌褉械蟹 2031谐., 蟹邪 写邪 褋褌邪薪械屑 褋胁懈写械褌械谢懈 薪邪 褋褗斜懈褌懈褟褌邪, 锌芯褋褌邪胁懈谢懈 薪邪褔邪谢芯褌芯 薪邪 泻褉邪褟 蟹邪 褑懈胁懈谢懈蟹邪褑懈褟褌邪 薪懈.
肖懈薪邪谢薪邪褌邪, 褌褉械褌邪, 褔邪褋褌 薪邪 泻薪懈谐邪褌邪, 薪懈 蟹邪锌芯蟹薪邪胁邪 褋褗褋 褋械褌薪懈褟 写褗褏 薪邪 H. sapiens, 薪械谐芯胁懈褌械 薪邪褋谢械写薪懈褑懈, 30 屑谢薪. 谐. 锌芯-泻褗褋薪芯 懈 锌褉械褋褗褏胁邪薪械褌芯 薪邪 褌械泻谢邪褌邪 锌褉械蟹 胁褋懈褔泻懈 褌械蟹懈 褋褌褉邪薪懈褑懈 懈薪褎芯褉屑邪褑懈芯薪薪邪 褉械泻邪, 薪邪褉械褔械薪邪 袛袧袣 (芯斜褉邪褌薪芯 胁 袦芯薪褌邪薪邪, 褋谢械写 500 屑谢薪. 谐.).
袦褍蟹邪 薪邪 袘邪泻褋褌褗褉芯胁芯褌芯 胁写褗褏薪芯胁械薪懈械 芯锌褉械写械谢械薪芯 械 斜懈谢芯 褌胁芯褉褔械褋褌胁芯褌芯 薪邪 袨谢邪褎 小褌械泄锌褗谢写褗薪 ("First and Last Men") 懈 泻薪懈谐懈褌械 褋褗褋 褋锌械泻褍谢邪褌懈胁薪邪 械胁芯谢褞褑懈褟 薪邪 褕芯褌谢邪薪写褋泻懈褟 锌邪谢械芯薪褌芯谢芯谐 袛褍谐褗谢 袛懈泻褋褗薪. 袦芯卸械屑 写邪 蟹褗褉薪械屑 懈 屑邪谢泻芯 芯褌 "袚邪谢邪锌邪谐芯褋"-邪 薪邪 袙芯薪械谐褗褌.
袣邪褌芯 械写懈薪褋褌胁械薪 薪械写芯褋褌邪褌褗泻 斜懈褏 锌芯褋芯褔懈谢 (懈蟹谢懈褕薪邪褌邪 褋锌芯褉械写 屑械薪) 胁褌芯褉邪 谐谢邪胁邪. 袧械芯斜褟褋薪懈屑 芯斜褉邪褌械薪 蟹邪胁芯泄 泻褗屑 袩邪薪谐械褟, 芯泻芯谢芯 褋褌芯褌懈薪邪 屑谢薪. 谐芯写懈薪懈 锌褉械写懈 褋褗斜懈褌懈褟褌邪 胁 锌褗褉胁邪 谐谢邪胁邪. 袧懈 胁 泻谢懈薪, 薪懈 胁 褉褗泻邪胁, 锌芯 褋褌褉邪薪懈褑懈褌械 胁蟹械褏邪 写邪 褋械 褖褍褉邪褌 薪邪写邪褉械薪懈 褋 懈薪褌械谢械泻褌 写懈薪芯蟹邪胁褉懈.
袩.袩. 袠屑邪泄褌械 锌褉械写胁懈写, 褔械 褋胁械褌邪 薪邪 蟹褗斜懈 懈 薪芯泻褌懈, 胁 泻芯泄褌芯 薪懈 蟹邪褏胁褗褉谢褟 泻薪懈谐邪褌邪, 薪械 斜懈 锌芯薪械褋褗谢 薪邪 胁褋械泻懈. 袦械薪邪卸械褉懈褟褌邪 芯褌 薪邪褋懈谢褋褌胁械薪懈 锌褉芯褟胁懈 械 锌褉械斜芯谐邪褌邪.
小谢械写胁邪褌 1,5 屑谢薪. 谐. 芯褌 懈褋褌芯褉懈褟褌邪 薪邪 褏芯屑懈薪懈薪懈褌械: 邪薪邪褌芯屑懈褔薪懈褌械 懈 褎懈蟹懈芯谢芯谐懈褔薪懈 锌褉芯屑械薪懈 褋褗锌褗褌褋褌胁邪谢懈 胁褋褟泻邪 薪芯胁邪 斜褉褗薪泻邪 芯褌 褔芯胁械褕泻懈褟 褉芯写, 锌芯褟胁邪褌邪 薪邪 械蟹懈泻, 泻褍谢褌褍褉邪 懈 褉械谢懈谐懈褟, 锌械褔邪谢薪邪褌邪 褋褗写斜邪 薪邪 H. neanderthalensis, 泻褉邪褟 薪邪 锌邪褋褌芯褉邪谢薪懈褟 薪芯屑邪写褋泻懈 卸懈胁芯褌, 褌邪 写芯褉懈 懈 褉邪蟹屑懈褋谢懈褌械 薪邪 褋褌褉邪褋褌械薪 谢褞斜懈褌械谢-锌邪谢械芯薪褌芯谢芯谐 懈 -邪薪褌褉芯锌芯谢芯谐, 胁 锌芯褋谢械写薪懈褌械 写薪懈 薪邪 (袟邪锌邪写薪邪褌邪) 袪懈屑褋泻邪 懈屑锌械褉懈褟. 袣褉邪褟 薪邪 胁褌芯褉邪褌邪 褔邪褋褌 薪懈 锌褉械薪邪褋褟 胁 褋褌芯谢懈褑邪褌邪 薪邪 邪胁褋褌褉邪谢懈泄褋泻邪褌邪 小械胁械褉薪邪 褌械褉懈褌芯褉懈褟, 袛邪褉胁懈薪, 锌褉械蟹 2031谐., 蟹邪 写邪 褋褌邪薪械屑 褋胁懈写械褌械谢懈 薪邪 褋褗斜懈褌懈褟褌邪, 锌芯褋褌邪胁懈谢懈 薪邪褔邪谢芯褌芯 薪邪 泻褉邪褟 蟹邪 褑懈胁懈谢懈蟹邪褑懈褟褌邪 薪懈.
肖懈薪邪谢薪邪褌邪, 褌褉械褌邪, 褔邪褋褌 薪邪 泻薪懈谐邪褌邪, 薪懈 蟹邪锌芯蟹薪邪胁邪 褋褗褋 褋械褌薪懈褟 写褗褏 薪邪 H. sapiens, 薪械谐芯胁懈褌械 薪邪褋谢械写薪懈褑懈, 30 屑谢薪. 谐. 锌芯-泻褗褋薪芯 懈 锌褉械褋褗褏胁邪薪械褌芯 薪邪 褌械泻谢邪褌邪 锌褉械蟹 胁褋懈褔泻懈 褌械蟹懈 褋褌褉邪薪懈褑懈 懈薪褎芯褉屑邪褑懈芯薪薪邪 褉械泻邪, 薪邪褉械褔械薪邪 袛袧袣 (芯斜褉邪褌薪芯 胁 袦芯薪褌邪薪邪, 褋谢械写 500 屑谢薪. 谐.).
袦褍蟹邪 薪邪 袘邪泻褋褌褗褉芯胁芯褌芯 胁写褗褏薪芯胁械薪懈械 芯锌褉械写械谢械薪芯 械 斜懈谢芯 褌胁芯褉褔械褋褌胁芯褌芯 薪邪 袨谢邪褎 小褌械泄锌褗谢写褗薪 ("First and Last Men") 懈 泻薪懈谐懈褌械 褋褗褋 褋锌械泻褍谢邪褌懈胁薪邪 械胁芯谢褞褑懈褟 薪邪 褕芯褌谢邪薪写褋泻懈褟 锌邪谢械芯薪褌芯谢芯谐 袛褍谐褗谢 袛懈泻褋褗薪. 袦芯卸械屑 写邪 蟹褗褉薪械屑 懈 屑邪谢泻芯 芯褌 "袚邪谢邪锌邪谐芯褋"-邪 薪邪 袙芯薪械谐褗褌.
袣邪褌芯 械写懈薪褋褌胁械薪 薪械写芯褋褌邪褌褗泻 斜懈褏 锌芯褋芯褔懈谢 (懈蟹谢懈褕薪邪褌邪 褋锌芯褉械写 屑械薪) 胁褌芯褉邪 谐谢邪胁邪. 袧械芯斜褟褋薪懈屑 芯斜褉邪褌械薪 蟹邪胁芯泄 泻褗屑 袩邪薪谐械褟, 芯泻芯谢芯 褋褌芯褌懈薪邪 屑谢薪. 谐芯写懈薪懈 锌褉械写懈 褋褗斜懈褌懈褟褌邪 胁 锌褗褉胁邪 谐谢邪胁邪. 袧懈 胁 泻谢懈薪, 薪懈 胁 褉褗泻邪胁, 锌芯 褋褌褉邪薪懈褑懈褌械 胁蟹械褏邪 写邪 褋械 褖褍褉邪褌 薪邪写邪褉械薪懈 褋 懈薪褌械谢械泻褌 写懈薪芯蟹邪胁褉懈.
袩.袩. 袠屑邪泄褌械 锌褉械写胁懈写, 褔械 褋胁械褌邪 薪邪 蟹褗斜懈 懈 薪芯泻褌懈, 胁 泻芯泄褌芯 薪懈 蟹邪褏胁褗褉谢褟 泻薪懈谐邪褌邪, 薪械 斜懈 锌芯薪械褋褗谢 薪邪 胁褋械泻懈. 袦械薪邪卸械褉懈褟褌邪 芯褌 薪邪褋懈谢褋褌胁械薪懈 锌褉芯褟胁懈 械 锌褉械斜芯谐邪褌邪.
August 15, 2023
TBR PILE CHALLENGE #10
674 pages. 5 days to read. An incredibly detailed examination of genetics, mutation and adaptation, biology, geology, geography, from back before the Dinosaur Era up into the Near Future [2130 and beyond]. Author Stephen Baxter demonstrates by fictionalizing individually and in groups (tribes and species) various different eras as the planet and life on the planet evolved. I found the utterly detailed description of the destruction wrought by the Comet ending the Dinosaur 馃 Era horrifying and painful to read; but "watching" the Evolution of Consciousness in humans was intriguing and educational. My other takeaway was how much the human species over all these millenia has to answer for: not just the fossil fuel consumption and thinning of the ozone layer in the 20th and 21st century: also throughout time, wanton wholesale destruction of species, burning entire forests as a routine method of hunting! True that climate change and geological change occurred apart from Humanity, but the human species has repeatedly failed to live in harmony with its only available Planet.
674 pages. 5 days to read. An incredibly detailed examination of genetics, mutation and adaptation, biology, geology, geography, from back before the Dinosaur Era up into the Near Future [2130 and beyond]. Author Stephen Baxter demonstrates by fictionalizing individually and in groups (tribes and species) various different eras as the planet and life on the planet evolved. I found the utterly detailed description of the destruction wrought by the Comet ending the Dinosaur 馃 Era horrifying and painful to read; but "watching" the Evolution of Consciousness in humans was intriguing and educational. My other takeaway was how much the human species over all these millenia has to answer for: not just the fossil fuel consumption and thinning of the ozone layer in the 20th and 21st century: also throughout time, wanton wholesale destruction of species, burning entire forests as a routine method of hunting! True that climate change and geological change occurred apart from Humanity, but the human species has repeatedly failed to live in harmony with its only available Planet.
March 21, 2025
I didn't exactly enjoy reading much of this; partially this was my fault for my tendency to read while I eat, and all the gruesome hunting and ravaging of prey and general horribleness of survival wasn't quite suited to that activity. There are other complaints: misplaced value judgements, stories that went on too long, the bare plot of most of the stories weren't exactly interesting in themselves. But what a marvelous book! I'd say Baxter and I share - at least in broad strokes - an attitude toward Life in general. This is the bulk of how I relate to existence - all kinds of creatures have lives, no matter how like or unlike us they are. In my opinion, Baxter balanced the line between getting inside the head of nonhumans with maintaining the reality of the inner lives or lack thereof. I could have used more specevo, but that's just my quirk; I'd say this borders on required reading for just understanding what in fact we, and life, are.
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