Evolution: The Story of Life on Earth

Evolution: The Story of Life on EarthAn accessible graphic introduction to evolution for the most science phobic reader Illustrated by the brilliant duo Kevin Cannon and Zander Cannon, this volume is written by the noted comic author and professor of biology Jay Hosler. Evolution features the same characters introduced in the highly regarded The Stuff of Life: A Graphic Guide to Genetics and DNA, now here to explain the fundamentals of the evolution of life on earth. On the heels of

An accessible graphic introduction to evolution for the most science-phobic reader

Illustrated by the brilliant duo Kevin Cannon and Zander Cannon, this volume is written by the noted comic author and professor of biology Jay Hosler. Evolution features the same characters introduced in the highly regarded The Stuff of Life: A Graphic Guide to Genetics and DNA, now here to explain the fundamentals of the evolution of life on earth. On the heels of explaining to his planetary leader the intricacies of human genetics in The Stuff of Life, the intrepid alien scientist Bloort-183 is charged in this sequel with covering the wider story of evolution. Using the same storytelling conceit that Plenty magazine declared so charming that you won't even notice you've absorbed an entire scientific field and that caused Seed to pick The Stuff of Life as a best book of 2008, Evolution brilliantly answers Wired's demand, What's the solution to America's crisis in science education? More comic books

Evolution, the most accessible graphic work on this universally studied subject, takes the reader from earth's primordial soup to the vestigial structures, like the coccyx and the male nipple, of modern humans. Once again, the award-winning illustrations of the Cannons render the complex clear and everything cleverly comedic. And in Hosler, Evolution has an award-winning biology teacher whose science comics have earned him a National Science Foundation grant and an interview on NPR's Morning Edition.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Published: 12/20/2011
ISBN: 9780809043118
Pages: 150
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 8.99h x 6.35w x 0.47d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 141586 / Evolution: The Story of Life on Earth
Reading Level: 6.9 / Interest Level: Middle Grade / Point Value: 4