★ How we became what we are: the fascinating history of the evolution of lifes on Earth!
★ More than 400 beautiful pictures and illustrations in color, with interesting knowledges and professional information (such as living fossils, origin and evolution of species, etc.)!
★ A book to make you understand the evolution of life, travel through billions of years!
★ From the universe stardusts to the first life of the Earth, and then to the development and evolution of human beings!

Where came the first life on earth? How did it con to the land from the seas, and then master the sky? What were the effects of climate change? How did humans evolve from ancient apes? – It is a most fascinating and exciting science book with visual knowledge, to overview the evolution of life on earth!

In this book, Dr. Laatschs describe how life on Earth developed and its four billion-year history, which may still live surround us today. It is about individuals, early animals and plants, about dinosaurs and primeval ancestors of man, about continents and climate catastrophes. With numerous pictures, family trees, infographics and boxes, Katrin and Alexander Laatsch show: What`s passing on earth from the most beginning to the end!

Dr. phil. Katrin Laatsch
Literary scholar / Americanist, Magistra Artium, Egyptologist, Baccalaurea Artium. During the studies, she worked in journalism, initially as part of internships, then as a freelancer and editor. She chose this form of work as a professional structure after her university education and have been working as a freelance science journalist, author, translator and lecturer in Hamburg since 2004.

2003-2009: Doctorate at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Hamburg
1999-2003: Studies in Egyptology
1996-2002: Studies in American Studies; Minor subjects: English, genetics (biology)

Dr. rer. nat. Alexander Laatsch
Doctor of Biology, Germany. He is also a lecturer at the University of Hamburg, member of the Medical Education Society, member of the German Society for Cell Biology, member of the Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, reviewer of various scientific publications. He has many years of rich teaching experience in human medicine and natural sciences, and won the 2013 Hamburg Teaching Award. In particular, he proposed many teaching concepts in the medical field and natural sciences. He has published many professional academic and popular science books and scientific articles.

2013: "Hamburg Teaching Award" awarded by the Hamburg Bureau of Science and Research
2009: "Best Poster" at the fourth joint meeting of the German Society for Arteriosclerosis Research and the Farid Society of Atherosclerosis
2006: "Heinrich Nechler Promotion Award", "Young Researcher Award Poster Honor Award", "Poster Award" at the 26th Blankennis Conference
2005: "Young Investigator Poster Award" at the 75th Congress of the European Atherosclerosis Society
2004: "Young Investigator Poster Award" at the 74th Congress of the European Atherosclerosis Society

1.HOW EVERYTHING BEGAN
A nursery of stardust

2.THE ORIGIN OF LIFE: SINGLE CELL
The initial cell: How all things began
Use sunlight: the first solar systems
Oxygen as a toxic gas exhaust: curse and blessing
Endosymbionts - The cell's subcontractors
Eukaryotes: The cell gets many rooms
The invention of sexuality - sexual reproduction

3.THE CONSTRUCTION PLAN OF ANIMALS
Farewell to eternal life
What is green does not have to remain green: the development of animals
An animal bestseller: the worm
Molluscs: How do you surpass a worm?
Arthropod: The boom of biodiversity
Echinoderms: The blueprint was turned up
Vertebrates: The evolution of fish
The Cambrian Explosion

4.THE CONQUEST OF THE LAND AND AIR
Plants on to the land
Water must be there: reproduction becomes complicated
Animals on to the land: arthropods with great starting advantage
Plants conquer airspace: from trees, spores and seeds
Vertebrates learn to walk: the fish go ashore

5.REPTILES, FLOWER PLANTS AND THE LONG WALK OF MAMMALS
The climate is becoming drier: the era of reptiles begins
Lizards and dinosaurs rule the world
In the shadow of the dinosaurs: the mammals develop
The earth is blooming: a cooperation between flowering plants and insects
From egg to womb: the triumphal march of mammals

6.CLIMATE, CONTINENTS, DISASTERS: THE BACKGROUND OF THE HISTORY OF LIFE
Continental development and its influence on evolution
Climate change and disasters
Living beings in their environment

7.HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
The development of primates
Apes populate Europe
Staying upright and better nutrition: the path to becoming human
The genus Homo: How do you recognize a human being?
Excerpt from Africa
Neanderthals and Co.
The modern man

8.THE WAY OF STARDUST
Evolution: what was, what remains, what will become