What is Life? Where did it come from? Why does it end?

Following the route of Darwin's expedition and studies, this copiously illustrated book tells the story of life: what "it is, what has shaped it, and how - thro

"The publication of the present work on The Wonders of Life has been occasioned by the success of The Riddle of the Universe, which was written five years prior

Here we have an endless stream of exotica-exotic living things growing from the ground and exotic critters of all shapes and sizes, crawling, bounding and flyin