The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy

By Arik Kershenbaum,

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* Paperback edition is published on 1 July 2021 *

A Times/Sunday Times Book of the Year

DISCOVER HOW LIFE REALLY WORKS - ON EARTH AND IN SPACE

'I love The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy. Although it sets out to be (and is) about alien life, what emerges is…

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Need to design an alien species? If so, you won’t find a better resource than this one.

Kershenbaum does nothing less than attempt to identify universal principles governing all biological organisms and does a damned impressive job of it. Beginning with the question of whether the human concept of “evolution” would even exist on an alien world, he works his way up to detailed and insightful analyses of what types of life forms would likely evolve in different environments and how they might communicate and socialize.

This is pure brain food for any lover of science or science fiction, an…

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