The Evolution of Life and the ‘Dead Species Walking’ with Henry Gee
Inquiring Minds
How Do You Write a Science Fiction Story?
The history of life on earth is only 206 pages, but it reads like a great ido george r r martin novel. How do you manage to be accurate and yet tell such a good story? Well, as a scientist, because all trained scientists feel undressed unless they can support everything they say with a footnote. But the second one is, as he said in the introduction, this is a great story, so i wanted to tell it as a story. It took quite a long time to get it into this part condensed form, but that's essentially what i did.
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