A Short History of Nearly Everything

Abstract

If you believe that our universe began with a divine miracle of six days, this book is not for you. Others, however, will find here a most readable and comprehensive account the story of creation, as traced by science. A Short History of Nearly Everything opens with the Big Bang and ends with Homo sapiens' most recent ancestors. In between come volcanoes, asteroids, the strange development of microbial life, and hundreds of stories and details.