Life on Earth: The Greatest Story Ever Told

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Dust jacket with chipping and small tears along edges, remains bright and protected in removable archival mylar protector. Once there, they had changed, as generation succeeded generation, to suit their new homes until they became their present species.

They include the orangutan, the gibbon, the chimpanzee and the primate with whom Attenborough has arguably his most famous encounter, the mountain gorilla.This was well known during the nineteenth century because the pioneers used it in their flintlock guns. Attenborough's perceptive, dynamic approach to the evolution of millions of species of living organisms takes the reader on an unforgettable journey of discovery from the very first spark of life to the blue and green wonder we know today. The best remembered sequence occurs in the twelfth episode, when Attenborough encounters a group of mountain gorillas in Dian Fossey's sanctuary in Rwanda. To my astonishment, the leaflets immediately folded themselves flat against the stem, transforming green fronds into apparently bare twigs. Since mammals have warm blood and most have dense fur, they can hunt at night when temperatures drop.

Life’s evolutionary steps – from the development of a digestive system to the awe of creatures taking to the skies in flight – are conveyed with an up-close intimacy. 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. Life on Earth: A Natural History by David Attenborough is a British television natural history series made by the BBC in association with Warner Bros. Fossil ammonites ( Arnioceras semicostatum), in a sample of rock from the lower Jurassic period (195 to 172 million years ago), Robin Hood’s Bay, Yorkshire, UK.The lungfish and the mouse deer are fundamentally similar to their ancestors, but they are by no means identical. 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.