Early Life: .

by Lynn Margulis

Early life attempts to tell the stories of primitive life. The text conveys some of the excitement in the current attempts to reconstruct the opening chapters of life on the planet Earth, long before the appearance of the simplest animal or plant.

Genres: Biology

176 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1982

About the author

Lynn Margulis (1938-2011) was a Professor of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.

Reviews

[Fred Kohn · Rating 4 out of 5]

As is often the case with scientific books, I am going to have to reread this one. Nevertheless I am happy with the amount of information I absorbed the first time around. I didn't realize until I got to the end of the book that there was a glossary which was a shame. There were several unfamiliar terms that I could have referred to had I known the glossary was there. Nevertheless all in all I didn't feel terribly lost, as I sometimes do with scientific books.