Spanning billions of years, Attenborough's time-travelling narrative brings
the reader face to face with the first animals that ever existed. By using the
latest technology, we are finally able to see for ourselves how these early
animals would have looked like and how they would have lived. Attenborough also
shows us how some of the evolutionary features of these most primitive creatures
are alive today in modern animals, including us humans.
Attenborough shows us how the evolution of the first eyes, the first solid
body parts and the first feet and backbones came to be. Looking at global ice
ages and volcanic eruptions he also shows how evolution is heavily connected
with the history of the planet.
In this groundbreaking investigation, Attenborough travels the world, from
Canada to Australia and Morocco to unearth the secrets hidden in prehistoric
fossils, providing a deeper understanding of the first living creatures and the
origins of our evolutionary traits.
Author Biography
Sir David Attenborough is Britain's best-known natural history film-maker.
His career as a naturalist and broadcaster has spanned nearly five decades and
there are very few places on the globe that he has not visited. Over the last
25 years he has established himself as the world's leading natural history
programme maker with several landmark BBC series, including: Life on Earth
(1979), The Living Planet (1984), The Trials of Life (1990), The Private Life of
Plants (1995), The Life of Birds (1998), The Life of Mammals (2002) and Life in
the Undergrowth (2005).