A Short History of Planet Earth: Mountains, Mammals, Fire, and Ice

How was the Earth formed? How did life begin? What causes earthquakes? What is the truth about global warming? This interesting book provides the latest answers to these questions and many more. It explains the complete history of our planet's geological and biological life. Introduces numerous new theories about long-standing mysteries such as the theory that life didn't emerge from the primoridial soup but may have come from outer space. Includes 40 illustrations which offer handy summaries of information as a time line of animal evolution and a graph depicting the trends in global warming from the earliest era to the present.