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The
2004 Award
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Evolution by Stephen Baxter
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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story began when dinosaurs dominated the earth. And, down through countless
millennia of the day-to-day dramas of survival of the fittest, they have
survived. The Primates. They dodged the thunderous feet and scything teeth
of the dinosaurs. 65 million years ago they survived the apocalyptic asteroid
strike and inherited on empty world. They have been carried by the infinitely
slow, stately dance of the continents, lived through the swift advance and
retreat of the great ice packs. They fumbled their way out of the forests. They became human, they covered the Earth, they fell but they have survived. And they have evolved. Adapted to life on a changing, dying world. This is their story. Evolution follows the ebb and flow of one stream in the great river of DNA. It turns the story of Darwinian evolution into a constant drama, a daily life and death struggle, a heroic story of life's endurance. It is a story that transcends generations, species, mankind and, in the end, the Earth itself. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Stephen Baxter is the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of, amongst others, The Time Ships, Moonseed, Voyage and Time. He is published all over the world. Born in 1957 he was raised in Liverpool and has a degree in mathematics from Cambridge and a PhD from Southampton. He is married and lives in Buckinghamshire, England. |
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