| Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth | |
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| Author(s) | Richard Fortey |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Nonfiction, Nonfiction novel |
| Publisher | Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc. |
| Publication date | September, 1998 |
| Media type | Print (paperback/hardback) |
| Pages | 346 pp (paperback edition) |
| ISBN | 0375401199 |
| OCLC Number | 38002657 |
| Dewey Decimal | 576.8 21 |
| LC Classification | QH366.2 .F69 1998 |
Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth is a non-fiction book written by British paleontologist Richard A. Fortey. It was originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by HarperCollins Publishers, under the title Life: An Unauthorised Biography. Richard Fortey used this book to explain how life has evolved over the last four billion years. It discusses evolution, biology, the origin of life, and paleontology. Under its various titles it has become a best-seller; according to WorldCat, it is in over a thousand public libraries in the United States alone.