A sequel to her Life and Her Children, which dealt with the invertebrates, this book tells the history of the vertebrates as an evolutionary story. Buckley begins with the quaint old fishes, follows life from water-breathing to air-breathing creatures, through reptiles and birds to the mammals, including the marsupials of Australia and the Tasmanian tiger-wolf.
A lucid Victorian popularisation of evolution, written by Charles Lyell’s former secretary. Download the free EPUB.