A review by pandagopanda
Life On Earth: A Natural History by David Attenborough

4.0

This accompanied Attenborough's incredibly ambitious original LOE series. The chapters sort of divide roughly by both chronological periods and organism types, which makes it a little harder to follow the timelines after the first few chapters, particularly when jumping back and forth discussing an ancient animal and it's current-era counterparts. I really enjoyed it though, and the selective (rather than exhaustive) telling highlights some fascinating and often surprising links between species. It made me think a lot more about the massive timescales of evolution and how adaptive (though slower than glacially) living things can be. I would put alongside Rachel Carson's "The Sea Around Us" as an accessible and captivating way to read into natural history and sciences.