Juliette DESEILLIGNY

A bit of a difficult read at times, I found, the writing being much mire focused than I was expecting on pure geology and fossils, but beyond that, some really fascinating stuff and a very clear and thought-provoking light shed on many aspects of evolution.
For curious people like myself who revel in understanding things, why things are the way they are, it's a real treat.
You know a book was good when you can clearly remember it months or years down the line, and still recommend it to people...

I would really have liked to put 5 stars for the content but the form forces me to dock one star off.
I agree wholeheartedly with the other person here who commented “life changing”; I think this book contains one of the most important perspectives voiced today, bar none. But it is presented in an extremely dense academic way which makes it both hard to follow if you actually can and inaccessible to most. This frustrates even more because it should so be in all hands.

J'aurais beaucoup voulu attribuer 5 étoiles à ce livre pour son fond, mais sa forme m'en retient.
Je suis tout à fait d'accord avec la personne qui a commenté ici “life changing” — ce livre ouvre vraiment nos yeux; je pense honnêtement que la vision qu'il présente est une des plus nécessaires à faire connaître et à prendre en compte aujourd'hui. Mais le livre est écrit de manière tristement dense et académique: non seulement est-il ainsi très dur à suivre, mais il est complètement inaccessible pour une majorité de lecteurs.
C'est d'autant plus frustrant qu'il devrait vraiment se retrouver entre toutes les mains.

A very beautiful and seriously inspiring and thought-provoking read... Like others have said, a fascinating east-west exploration, very well laid out, and a dense content but which was so interesting it prompted me to take notes as I went along and not hesitate to dip back a few times over and reread certain passages before moving on. Well worth it, because as clarity seeps through, your eyes and mind open up, big style...