I had this book on my pile to read for a while now, but didn't happen until I found a used copy of the audiobook and was able to listen to that while I worked. This was a good, but obviously compact, look on how life started and evolved on Earth, using astronomy, geology, physics, chemistry and paleontology to tell the story. The best part is while telling the parts of the story, some of the people and scientists mentioned aren't the usual ones that always brought up in popular science books - so even if you have read other science books about the general ideas on how the Earth was created or how life began, you will still learn plenty of new things from this book.