THE BONES BENEATH US
Extinction, Evolution & The Fragile Age of Humans
Humans exist at the edge of a story that has ended many times before...
The Bones Beneath Us is a full-length narrative nonfiction book (≈320 pages) about Earth’s deep history and the human story within it.In the repeated rise and fall of lost worlds, the illusion of permanence that surrounds modern life collapses.
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The Bones Beneath Us is structured as a descent through time. Beginning in the present, it moves steadily back through Earth’s past to the earliest conditions that allowed life to emerge, reconstructing each stage through the physical evidence it left behind. Fossils, rock layers, chemical traces, and evolutionary transitions form the backbone of the narrative.Across deep time, extinction and evolution reshape entire biospheres, setting the limits of what can exist next. Human history enters late in this account, treated as an unusual phase within a planet that has repeatedly dismantled its dominant forms of life, and governed by the same processes that shaped earlier worlds.The book speaks to a present marked by uncertainty and informational overload, when planetary change is discussed constantly yet rarely understood in context. It is written for readers who recognise that the future is becoming harder to assume, and that understanding the trajectory of our species depends on forces far older than the world we recognise.
About The Author
George Wakeman writes about deep time, extinction, and the history of life. He created the @extinctanimalsfacts Instagram page, a project followed by more than half a million people.He has been interested in deep time, extinction, and the history of life since childhood, but only began writing about them seriously later in life. He spent two years researching and writing The Bones Beneath Us independently, outside traditional academic routes.The Bones Beneath Us: Extinction, Evolution & The Fragile Age of Humans is his first major work, a narrative study of Earth’s deep history and the uncertain chapter our species has entered.