"Evolution" - читать интересную книгу автора (Baxter Stephen)
Evolution by Stephen Baxter Prologue ONE Ancestors CHAPTER 1 Dinosaur Dreams Montana, North America. Circa 65 million years before present. I II III IV CHAPTER 2 The Hunters of Pangaea Pangaea. Circa 145 million years before present. CHAPTER 3 The Devil’s Tail North America. Circa 65 million years before present. I II III IV CHAPTER 4 The Empty Forest Texas, North America. Circa 63 million years before present. I CHAPTER 5 The Time of Long Shadows Ellesmere Island, North America. Circa 51 million years before present. I II III IV CHAPTER 6 The Crossing Congo River, West Africa. Circa 32 million years before present. I II III IV CHAPTER 7 The Last Burrow Ellsworth Land, Antarctica. Circa 10 million years before present. I CHAPTER 8 Fragments North African coast. Circa 5 million years before present. I II III TWO Humans Interlude CHAPTER 9 The Walkers Central Kenya, East Africa. Circa 1.5 million years before present. I II III CHAPTER 10 The Crowded Land Central Kenya, East Africa. Circa 127,000 years before present. I II III IV CHAPTER 11 Mother’s People Sahara, North Africa. Circa 60,000 years before present. I II III IV CHAPTER 12 Raft Continent I Indonesian Peninsula, Southeast Asia. Circa 52,000 years before present. II Northwestern Australia. Circa 51,000 years before present. III New South Wales, Australia. Circa 47,000 years before present. CHAPTER 13 Last Contact Western France. Circa 31,000 years before present. I II III CHAPTER 14 The Swarming People Anatolia, Turkey. Circa 9,600 years before present. I II III CHAPTER 15 The Dying Light Rome. Common Era [CE] 482. I II III CHAPTER 16 An Entangled Bank Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. CE 2031. I II THREE Descendants CHAPTER 17 A Long Shadow Place and time unknown. I II III IV CHAPTER 18 The Kingdom of the Rats East Africa. Circa 30 million years after present. I II III IV CHAPTER 19 A Far Distant Futurity Montana, Central New Pangaea. Circa 500 million years after present. I II III Epilogue Afterword
Evolution by Stephen Baxter To Sandra, again. And to the rest of us, in hope of long perspectives
Judging from the past, we may safely infer that not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity. And of the species now living very few will transmit progeny of any kind to a far distant futurity.
—Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life (1859)
