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Nature, Gardens & Animals
Relics of Primeval Life: Beginning of Life in the Dawn of Geological Time
John William, Sir Dawson
199 pages~3 hr 58 min read20 chapters$4.99
What was the first living thing, and how would we know its trace? Dawson hunts for the beginnings of life in the oldest rocks, arguing for fossils at the very dawn of geological time. A bold Victorian foray into earth's deepest past. Search the most ancient stone for the faint signature of the world's earliest life.
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20 chapters
- 1RELICS OF PRIMEVAL LIFE
- 2RELICS OF PRIMEVAL LIFE
- 3SIR J. WILLIAM DAWSON LL.D., F.R.S., Etc.
- 4PREFACE
- 5CONTENTS
- 6APPENDIX
- 7LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 8I
- 9II
- 10III
- 11IV
- 12V
- 13VI
- 14VII
- 15VIII
- 16IX
- 17X
- 18XI
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