My First Book of Evolution

Eduard Altarriba is a graphic designer and illustrator. He runs Alababalà, a studio producing games, exhibitions, animation, apps and practical and fun workbooks for children. He has illustrated a number of books published by GMC Publications including, Discovering Architecture, Discovering Energy, My First Book of Electromagnetism, My First Book of Microbes, My First Book of Quantum Physics, My First Book of Relativity, My First Book of the Cosmos, What is War? and Migrants. Eduard lives in Barcelona, Spain. Sheddad Kaid-Salah Ferrón is a science and physics enthusiast with degrees in physics and pharmacy. Since graduation he has been teaching science to children, continuing to study physics, working in the pharmaceutical field and staring at the universe with his telescope. He now writes popular science books. Sheddad and Eduard Altarriba are an award-winning illustrator and author duo and have written a number of books published by GMC Publications including My First Book of Electromagnetism, My First Book of Quantum Physics, My First Book of Relativity, My First Book of the Cosmos, Discovering Architecture and Discovering Energy. Sheddad lives in Barcelona, Spain.

Life 4 

The Family Tree 6 

The Tree of Life 7 

Species 8 

Evolution 10 

Natural selection 12 

The Voyage of the Beagle 14 

Developing the theory of natural selection 16 

“The Origin of Species” 17 

Adaptation to the environment 18 

Heredity 20 

Cells 22 

Mutations 24 

We are not all the same 26 

Genetic variability 27 

The (modern) theory of evolution 28 

The evolution of life 30 

Speciation 32 

Microevolution and macroevolution 33 

The peppered moth 34  

The evolution of birds 36 

Coevolution 38 

Artificial selection 39 

Fossils 40 

Improvable “designs” 42 

Extinction 43 

LUCA 44 

Future humans 46 

Extraterrestrial life 46