Joseph Delaney used to be an English teacher, before becoming the best-selling author of the Spook's series, which has been published in 30 countries and sold over 4.5 million copies worldwide. The first book, The Spook's Apprentice, was adapted into a major motion picture starring Jeff Bridges and Julianne Moore.

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Jonathan Loh

There is nothing quite like us on Earth. We are a species of animal, yet unlike any other; we innovate, explore, talk, plan, build vast societies, cooperate, wage war, construct and destruct our environment. Our story is not a simple biological thread, but an intertwined web of nature and culture that has shaped our past, defines our present and can help us navigate our future. 
 
Life Story is Jonathan Loh’s groundbreaking dual narrative of the development of life on Earth through both biological and cultural evolution. Far from being a byproduct of nature, he reveals how human culture is a distinct form of life, its evolution through co-operation, language and technology echoing the diversification of organic life from simple cells to multicellular, social animals – and how it gives us unique advantages and responsibilities. 
 
But evolution is not finite. In a future in which our machine-based creations could evolve into a life form of their own, Loh outlines an extraordinary scenario for the next evolutionary leap, based on a new understanding of our cultural and natural heritage and the power they give us to change the world.

Life Story

From Cells to Civilisations and Beyond

Rowan Hooper

From evolution to capitalism, ‘survival of the fittest’ has shaped our view of the world. But we got it wrong – and our mistake has brought us to the brink. 
 
For the history of life on Earth is much more than a story of competition. The natural world has been forged and sustained by small miracles of co-operation between animals and plants, insects and fungi, fish and bacteria – these partnerships are ubiquitous, lifelong and are an essential guide for a better future. 
 
In Togetherness, Rowan Hooper reveals the intimate connectedness of nature through these remarkable stories of symbiosis. From the female wasp venturing deep inside a fig and the intricate relationship between corals and the algae that sustain them to the symbiotic gut microbes that influence our moods, he explores how co-operation is fundamental to life itself and to protecting our shared future. 
 
Togetherness will change the way you see the world, our place in it – and our obligation to its hidden wonders.

Togetherness

Symbiosis and the Hidden Story of Life’s Greatest Collaborations

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