Name: Evolution
ISBN: 9780345457837

Stephen Baxter

An epic science fiction adventure by the award-winning author of the Manifold trilogy dramatizes some 165 million years of human evolution, from the prehistoric world to the quest for outer space. Reprint.

Evolution

From their beginnings foraging at the feet of the dinosaurs, through the apocalypse of an asteroid strike, through countless years of the day to day life and death dramas of survival of the fittest, to the rise and fall of mankind and the final destruction of earth by the expanding sun, the primates have survived. This is their story. EVOLUTION follows the ebb and flow of the fortunes of one group of creatures as they change and adapt to their world somewhere on the horn of Africa. It turns the story of Darwinian evolution into a constant drama, a daily life and death struggle, a heroic story of life¿s endurance. It is a story that transcends generations, species, mankind and, in the end, the Earth itself. In the tradition of Olaf Stapledon and HG Wells.

Kerri Miller

Solid book, and I ripped through it, delighted at the scope and imagination involved, however 2 things - first, Baxter has a depressingly pessimistic and nihilistic world view I find unsettling.. and second, the third and final section features some... well, flights of fancy that while entertaining, didn't seem plausible to me, and broke the mood of "hard science about the story of human evolution"