A Short History of Nearly Everything: Special Illustrated Edition

by Bill Bryson

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  Jolly, Alison, Lucy’s Legacy: Sex and Intelligence in Human Evolution. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999.

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  Kurlansky, Mark, Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World. London: Vintage, 1999.

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  — The Sixth Extinction: Biodiversity and its Survival. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1996.

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