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

Biological evolution 10

Natural selection 12

Journey of the Beagle 14

How the theory of natural selection emerged 16

The Origin of Species 17

Adapting to the environment 18

Inheritance 20

The cell 22

Mutations 24

We are not all equal 26

Genetic variability 27

The theory of evolution 28

The evolution of life 30

Speciation 32

Microevolution and macroevolution 33

The birch butterfly 34

The evolution of birds 36

Coevolution 38

Artificial selection 39

Fossils 40

Improvable ‘designs' 42

Extinctions 43

LUCA (last universal common ancestor) 44

Future humans 46