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A COMPLETE, UNCOMPLICATED GUIDE TO THE SCIENCE OF LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING
Most scientists know only their own field. Tim Coulson is at home with science as an integrated whole. A pleasure to read, and a lasting accomplishment' Richard Dawkins
''Step aside Star Wars ours is the most astonishing origin story you'll ever hear and its beautifully told by Tim Coulson' Professor Ken Norris, Deputy Director of Science at the Natural History Museum
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Have you ever wondered why you exist?
What had to happen for you and all life on Earth to come into being?
What is the true answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything?
In The Universal History of Us, Tim Coulson Professor of Zoology at Oxford takes us back to the beginning of everything: the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago. From there, he leads us step by step along the path to the most astonishing thing we have yet encountered the stagger
