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Cassell's Atlas of Evolution: The Earth, its landscape, and life forms by Richard Moody, Dougal Dixon, Ian Jenkins and Audrey Zhuravlev

By Richard Fifield

17 November 2001

Cassell’s Atlas of Evolution: The Earth, its landscape, and life forms by

Richard Moody, Dougal Dixon, Ian Jenkins and Audrey Zhuravlev, £30, ISBN

0304355119

IT’S BENEATH our feet all the days of our lives but few of us get to know

much about it, or bother to find out. Try it, say some, and you may lose

yourself in this fascinating region of science. Well, this autobiography of

planet Earth does the job for you with great clarity, splendid graphics and

glorious colour admirably marshalled together by Richard Moody and his team.

The story opens around 12 billion years ago…

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