"Evolution" recreates the 3.5 billion-year story of life on Earth in stunning detail through vivid full-color illustrations and graphics, the latest scientific information, and hundreds of photographs--a beautifully detailed panorama of communities from microbes to humankind that have lived on the planet's continents and in its oceans.

Richly supplemented with detailed, specially commissioned cartography, illustrations and photographs, this book gathers the many strands of investigation into our origins to offer a comprehensive overview of the current state of knowledge of our origins.