IN SEARCH OF OUR ANCIENT ANCESTORS: From the Big Bang to Modern Britain, in Science and Myth

From single-celled organisms to sea-dwelling vertebrates; amphibians to reptiles; tiny mammals to primitive man; the first Homo sapiens to the cave painters of Ice Age Europe and the first farmers to the Norman Conquest, this expansive history charts humanity's complete ancestry in a sprawling interconnected saga of life itself. Illus.