Mark Cocker

From water-dwelling sponges to face-eating hyenas: the whole of life is in this book

A review of Ten Million Aliens: A Journey Through the Entire Animal Kingdom, by Simon Barnes. Avoiding all anthropocentrism, the book proceeds by interlocking the most sophisticated life-forms with the most simple

issue 15 November 2014
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  • Ten Million Aliens: A Journey Through the Entire Animal Kingdon

    Simon Barnes

    Short Books, pp. 480

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