Reviews
"The story is part travelogue, part memoir, told in an individual style with singular anecdotes. This is a scientific adventure that will entertain and inform general readers and has the potential to inspire the next generation of young researchers."--The Quarterly Review of Biology "Accurately subtitledThe History of Animal Life, this discourse by Brasier is part travelogue (without maps of the out-of-the-way geological formations he visited around the world), part memoir (not chronological by author's career or geologic record), and part commentary on multicellular life near the Cambrian-Precambrian boundary 543 million years ago. Readers with some knowledge of Earth's geologic history and of invertebrates will appreciate the book."--CHOICE "A rollicking account of [Brasier's] adventures seeking an answer to a question that vexed Charles Darwin." --Library Journal, "Accurately subtitled The History of Animal Life , this discourse by Brasier is part travelogue (without maps of the out-of-the-way geological formations he visited around the world), part memoir (not chronological by author's career or geologic record), and part commentary on multicellular life near the Cambrian-Precambrian boundary 543 million years ago. Readers with some knowledge of Earth's geologic history and of invertebrates will appreciate the book."-- CHOICE "A rollicking account of [Brasier's] adventures seeking an answer to a question that vexed Charles Darwin." -- Library Journal, "The story is part travelogue, part memoir, told in an individual style with singular anecdotes. This is a scientific adventure that will entertain and inform general readers and has the potential to inspire the next generation of young researchers."--The Quarterly Review of Biology "Accurately subtitled The History of Animal Life, this discourse by Brasier is part travelogue (without maps of the out-of-the-way geological formations he visited around the world), part memoir (not chronological by author's career or geologic record), and part commentary on multicellular life near the Cambrian-Precambrian boundary 543 million years ago. Readers with some knowledge of Earth's geologic history and of invertebrates will appreciate the book."--CHOICE "A rollicking account of [Brasier's] adventures seeking an answer to a question that vexed Charles Darwin." --Library Journal, "The story is part travelogue, part memoir, told in an individual style with singular anecdotes. This is a scientific adventure that will entertain and inform general readers and has the potential to inspire the next generation of young researchers."-- The Quarterly Review of Biology"Accurately subtitled The History of Animal Life , this discourse by Brasier is part travelogue (without maps of the out-of-the-way geological formations he visited around the world), part memoir (not chronological by author's career or geologic record), and part commentary on multicellular life near the Cambrian-Precambrian boundary 543 million years ago. Readers with some knowledge of Earth's geologic history and of invertebrates will appreciate the book."-- CHOICE"A rollicking account of [Brasier's] adventures seeking an answer to a question that vexed Charles Darwin." -- Library Journal, "A rollicking account of [Brasier's] adventures seeking an answer to a question that vexed Charles Darwin." --Library Journal, "The story is part travelogue, part memoir, told in an individual style with singular anecdotes. This is a scientific adventure that will entertain and inform general readers and has the potential to inspire the next generation of young researchers."--The Quarterly Review of Biology"Accurately subtitled The History of Animal Life, this discourse by Brasier is part travelogue (without maps of the out-of-the-way geological formations he visited around the world), part memoir (not chronological by author's career or geologic record), and part commentary on multicellular life near the Cambrian-Precambrian boundary 543 million years ago. Readers with some knowledge of Earth's geologic history and of invertebrates will appreciate the book."--CHOICE"A rollicking account of [Brasier's] adventures seeking an answer to a question that vexed Charles Darwin." --Library Journal
