Description: Taking readers inside one of science's most ambitious projects, a leading evolutionary biologist offers a definitive portrait of life's family tree.
Brief description: Max Telford is an evolutionary biologist at University College London. He has received an EMBO Young Investigator award, the Linnean Society's Bicentenary Medal, and a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit award. He lives in London.
Review Quotes: [E]njoyable and ambitious . . . [Max Telford] takes us on an exhilarating cartographic journey in which he attempts to map out the various rivers and tributaries that make up the basic infrastructure of life's evolutionary history.--Adrian Woolfson "Wall Street Journal"