A billion-year history of movement, from bacteria to Olympic athletes.

A pop-science treat.'' Gavin FrancisThe first popular book on the subject - and with numerous press angles, sure to receive huge attentionFrom a rising star of science writing - a Cambridge zoologist who is also a professional actor. Brilliant video at bit.ly/restlessvid

'[An] ingenious but not-dumbed-down history of life's 4-billion-year progress in getting from one place to another.... [Readers] will come away with a deep understanding of an essential basis of life.'

Autorentext
Matt Wilkinson is a zoologist and science communicator at the University of Cambridge. His work has been covered in the Telegraph, Metro, New Scientist and Nature. He has been a runner-up in the Daily Telegraph/BASF science writer competition, and reached second place in the first Cheltenham Science Festival FameLab competition. In 2007 he went to drama school, and he wrote a play about T.H. Huxley that was premiered at the 2009 Darwin Festival. Restless Creatures is his first book.

Klappentext

A billion-year history of movement, from bacteria to Olympic athletes.

Zusammenfassung
A billion-year history of movement, from bacteria to Olympic athletes.