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Epigenetics upends natural selection and genetic mutation as the sole engines of evolution, and offers startling insights into our future traits.

About the Author

Peter Ward, Ph.D. is a paleontologist and astrobiologist, and an acknowledged expert on mass extinctions. He has published many books, including A New History of Life, with coauthor Joe Kirschvink. Ward’s Rare Earth, coauthored with Don Brownlee, was named by Discover Magazine as one of the ten most important science books of 2001 and his Gorgon was awarded a Washington State Governor’s Book Award in 2005. He has appeared often on the Art Bell Coast to Coast radio program and on Science Friday with Ira Flatow. Ward lives in Washington State.

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A NEW HISTORY OF LIFE deserves kudos for infectious élan, impressive scholarship and a plausible accounting of life’s herky-jerky, hurry-up-and-wait tribulations.
*Wall Street Journal (A NEW HISTORY OF LIFE)*

If you want to open your mind to the depths of modern thinking, then A NEW HISTORY OF LIFE is for you. Read it!
*San Francisco Book Review (A NEW HISTORY OF LIFE)*

A NEW HISTORY OF LIFE makes for an exciting and comprehensive read, enthralling to science nerds and lay readers who are curious about the rich natural history of planet Earth.
*Nature World News (A NEW HISTORY OF LIFE)*

The authors, both scientists, propose several different ways of looking at the history of life on earth, including the role that catastrophes played in shaping the development of living things.
*Seattle Times (A NEW HISTORY OF LIFE)*

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