一开始，地球上并没有生物，地球是一个吵闹、炎热和恐怖的地方。令人窒息的气体从火山中喷发出来，大量的岩浆在整个地球上冒着泡泡......后来，在黑暗的海洋深处，不可思议的事情发生了。这是一个关于生命在地球上是如何开始和发展的激动人心的故事，专为小朋友们而写的。

本书的作者们解释了**个活细胞是如何形成的，这些细胞是如何繁殖，长成水母和蠕虫，接着又长成有着容易弯曲的脖子，这种脖子可以将他们拖出水面，进入土地湿软的森林。他们讲述了曾经在陆地上行走的体形**的动物——恐龙。在那儿之后很久，长着毛发、生出幼崽而不是蛋的动物统治了陆地，他们用双脚站立，并在全世界蔓延开来。其中的一些经受住了巨大的灾难，如冰河世纪和火杀喷发。今天活着的每一个人都与这些幸存者有着千丝万缕的联系。书中令人愉悦的插图包括大量经过认真研究和检查的的细节和幽默。本书用一种真正易懂和简单的方式展示了地球上生命的发展过程。

An exciting and dramatic story about how life began and developed on Planet Earth, full of fascinating facts and funny illustrations. At first, nothing lived on Earth. It was a noisy, hot, scary place. Choking gas exploded from volcanoes and oceans of lava bubbled around the globe...Then in the deep, dark ocean, something amazing happened. Find out how the first living cell was created, and how the cells multiply and create jellyfish and worms, and then fish with bendy necks, which drag themselves out of the water into swampy forests. Discover the story of the biggest creatures that have ever walked on land – the dinosaurs. Long after that, hairy creatures who have babies, not eggs, take over, stand on two legs and spread around the world, some of them living through cataclysmic events such as ice ages and volcanic eruptions. Everyone living today is related to these survivors- including you! This is the perfect first book about evolution for young readers.