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Lewis Dartnell
Read the Sunday Times bestseller that reveals the Earth’s awesome impact on the shape of human civilisations. ‘Stands comparison with Sapiens… Thrilling’ Sunday Times Human evolution in East Africa was…
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If the world as we know it ended tomorrow, how would you survive? A nuclear war, viral pandemic or asteroid strike.
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A unique reframing of human history as shaped by our physical abilities and limitations - by the Sunday Times-bestselling author of Origins
Being Human is history made flesh. It will…
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Any microbial life extant in the top meters of the martian subsurface is likely to be held dormant for long periods of time by the current permafrost conditions. In this…
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'Illuminating' TIM MARSHALL, author of Prisoners of Geography…
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In this gripping introduction, Lewis Dartnell explores Astrobiology’s latest findings, tackling along the way some of the most fascinating questions in science.
First published by Penguin Press in hardcover as The knowledge: how to rebuild our world from scratch, 2014.
'Illuminating' TIM MARSHALL, bestselling author of The Future of Geography 'Refreshing' THOMAS HALLIDAY, bestselling author of Otherlands
Our biology will change how you see the world. Lewis Dartnell explores how…
Originally published: United Kingdom: The Bodley Head, 2019.
The study of life and its existence in the universe, known as astrobiology, is now one of the hottest areas of both popular science and serious academic research, fusing biology…
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Want to know what’s next for the human race? Step into Jim Al-Khalili’s time machine …