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Life on Earth: The Greatest Story Ever Told

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Those who wish to discover more about it in more technical books will find its scientific name in the index. This explained the mechanism by which physical characteristics are passed from one generation to the next. Two examples are the sifaka, which is a specialised jumper, and the indri, which has a well-developed voice. Hardback, ISBN A new, beautifully illustrated edition of David Attenborough's groundbreaking Life on Earth. Insects then evolved wings to avoid climbing and the dragonfly (which once had a wingspan of 60 centimetres) is one of the most successful.

This special anniversary edition provides a fitting tribute to an enduring wildlife classic, destined to enthral the generation who saw it when first published and bring it alive for a whole new generation. It is the first in Attenborough's Life series of programmes and was followed by The Living Planet (1984). Such new insights will be described in this new edition in their appropriate places in the pages that follow. The most suitable places for fossilisation are in seas and lakes where sedimentary deposits that will become sandstones and limestones are slowly accumulating. For this work, he traveled the world to unearth examples of life forms, many accompanied by vivid color photos.A new, fully updated narrative edition of David Attenborough’s seminal biography of our world, The Living Planet. The scales protect the body from wear and tear and in the case of some species of lizard, such as the Australian thorny devil, serve to protect from attack. I sat with my four-year-old daughter and we flicked through the pictures; she liked the pangolin, not so much the grim fanfin seadevil, and was transfixed by a leopard taking down a pained, bloodied springbok, teeth sunk into its haunch.

So if the proportion of the secondary element to the primary one in a rock is measured, the time at which the original mineral was formed can be calculated. They include the orangutan, the gibbon, the chimpanzee and the primate with whom Attenborough has arguably his most famous encounter, the mountain gorilla.This paperback edition also includes more than 60 full colour photographs, chosen by the author to help illustrate the book in a much greater way than was possible forty years ago. One cameraman spent hundreds of hours waiting for the fleeting moment when a Darwin's frog, which incubates its young in its mouth, finally spat them out. For odd, historical reasons, the BBC keeps natural history and science in separate silos, as if displaying the scientific fact of evolution can only be represented in the glory of nature.

Other rocks, at the same level elsewhere, contain impressions of fern leaves and the wings of insects. One of these LPs found its way into the hands of Jonny Trunk, owner of independent label Trunk Records, who negotiated the licence from the BBC. Fossils have been found not only in Australia but in many other parts of the world, including the Avalon peninsula in northern Canada where a seabed thronged with all kinds of hitherto unknown organisms and dating from around 565 million years ago has been preserved with astounding perfection.

Such creatures evolved further and learned to use flint for weapons, animal skins for clothing, and fire for warmth and preparing food. It made possible all sorts of marvellous explorations of new sounds which could then be made into music. Nearly a century after the publication of Darwin’s book on evolution by natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Crick and Watson described the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid – DNA for short – the molecule that carries the genetic blueprint from which another individual animal can be developed. This, however, risks imposing an appearance of purpose on the animal kingdom that does not exist in reality. He starts by explaining the theories of Charles Darwin and the process of natural selection, using the giant tortoises of the Galápagos Islands (where Darwin voyaged on HMS Beagle) as an example.

Around 1,600 kilometres northeast of the Grand Canyon, ancient rocks of about the same age as those beside the Colorado River outcrop on the shores of Lake Superior. The Times This is now the best book available about the huge changes in our planet and its living creatures, over the billions of years of the Earth’s existence . Most species that live below the thermocline, in the freezing depths of the ocean, have never been filmed, and these are largely represented by still photographs. It was also a major international success, being sold to over 100 territories and watched by an estimated audience of 500 million people worldwide.A hardback book, Life on Earth by David Attenborough, was published in 1979 and became a worldwide bestseller. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance. The episode begins in the South American rainforest whose rich variety of life forms is used to illustrate the sheer number of different species.

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