They've Kept On Keeping On

摘要

Time travel is enticing to us; we relish the prospect of journeying back to see for ourselves how history actually happened. We have documents and archeo-logical remains to tell our story, but imagine what more we might learn if some key characters in human history were still alive today. In Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms, Richard Fortey offers a colorful tale of extraordinary (and often unfamiliar) plants and animals that are ancient in origin and still found in present-day habitats.