7-minute read
keywords: evolution

Once it evolved, “life unfurled into every open space and every crevice” (p. 9). This is one of the observations underlying Super Natural, the second book by science writer Alex Riley. In the drive to escape predators and competitors, to find an ecological niche of one’s own, organisms have adapted to some of the planet’s most extreme and hostile environments. Extreme and hostile to humans, that is. In this entertaining romp through life’s outliers, Riley marvels at the resilience and ingenuity of many organisms and introduces you to some of the truly mind-boggling conditions under which they not only survive, but often thrive.

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