Book Review: 'A New History of Life' by Peter Ward and Joe Kirschvink - WSJ - 0 views
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I imagine that physicists are similarly deluged with revelations about how to build a perpetual-motion machine or about the hitherto secret truth behind relativity. And so I didn’t view the arrival of “A New History of Life” with great enthusiasm.
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subtitle breathlessly promises “radical new discoveries about the origins and evolution of life on earth,” while the jacket copy avers that “our current paradigm for understanding the history of life on Earth dates back to Charles Darwin’s time, yet scientific advances of the last few decades have radically reshaped that aging picture.”
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authors Peter Ward and Joe Kirschvink are genuine scientists—paleontologists, to be exact. And they can write.
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