Strata: Stories from Deep Time

"It can be fun (or frightening) to imagine humans at the center of everything, but the truth is, we arrived awfully late to the party. Humans have been around for a vanishingly small fraction of the Earth’s roughly 4.5 billion-year life so far. Science journalist Laura Poppick’s first book offers an accessible introduction to what we know of the vast, obscure past that predates us, one layer of rock at a time, offering an entertaining answer to that eternal question of latecomers the world over: So, what did we miss, guys?"