Summary
Prehistory: A Comprehensive Illustrated History of Life on Earth
The book provides a comprehensive overview of prehistory. The sequence of geological processes that enabled life to develop on Earth is described; the development of life forms through geological eras from the Archaic to the Quaternary is shown; the rise of man, that is, the pattern of our evolution from the moment when the human lineage separated from the developmental line of chimpanzees approximately seven million years ago, to the period of the Middle Stone Age, that is, the Mesolithic.
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