‘A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth’ wins Royal Society Science Book Prize

In the UK, Henry Gee has won the 2022 Royal Society Science Book Prize for A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 billion years in 12 chapters (Picador), reports the Bookseller.

Judging panel chair Maria Fitzgerald said of Gee’s book: ‘This is history like you have never read before. Henry Gee takes us on a whirlwind journey through 4.6 billion years through the birth of the planet Earth, the emergence of life and the evolution of man … As Gee races through millennia, momentous physical and biological changes are described with immense skill and dynamism combined with almost poetic imagery’.

Gee was chosen as the winner from a shortlist of six announced in September.

Last year’s winner was Merlin Sheldrake for Entangled Life: How fungi make our worlds, change our minds and shape our futures (Vintage). To learn more about the prize, visit the Royal Society website.

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