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Author
Series
Sigma Force novels volume 16
Language
English
Description
"A United Nations relief team in a small village in the Congo makes an alarming discovery: an unknown force is leveling the evolutionary playing field. Men, women, and children have been reduced to a dull, catatonic state. The environment surrounding them--plants and animals--has grown more cunning and predatory, evolving at an exponential pace. The insidious phenomenon is spreading from a cursed site in the jungle known to locals as the Kingdom of...
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (72 unnumbered pages) : illustrations (black & white) ; 21 x 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a fable for grown-ups by cartoonist Bill Watterson, a long-ago kingdom is afflicted with unexplainable calamities. Hoping to end the torment, the king dispatches his knights to discover the source of the mysterious events. Years later, a single battered knight returns.
3) In ascension
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the ocean floor, leading her on a journey that will encompass the full trajectory of the cosmos and the passage of a single human life. Leigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to the waterfront as an escape from her unhappy home life and volatile father. Enchanted by the undersea world of her childhood, she excels in marine biology, traveling the globe to study...
4) The God gene
Author
Series
(Francis Paul)ICE Sequence volume 2
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
367 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rick's brother, Keith, a prominent zoologist at NYU, walks out of his office one day and disappears. The only clue they have are his brother's book, which mentions "the God Gene". A million or so years ago, a gene designated hsa-mir-3998 appeared as if by magic from the junk DNA of the hominids who eventually evolved into Homo sapiens. It became a key player in brain development -- specifically creativity -- and laymen started calling it "the God...
5) Genome
Author
Series
Extinction files volume 2
Publisher
Riddle, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
443 pages ;
Language
English
Description
In 2003, the first human genome was sequenced. But the secrets it held were never revealed. The truth was discovered thirty years ago, almost by accident. Dr. Paul Kraus had spent his entire career searching for what he called humanity's lost tribes -- human ancestors who had gone extinct. When Kraus compared the DNA samples of the lost tribes with our own, he found a pattern of changes: a code. At the time, the technology didn't exist to unravel...
Author
Series
Origin mystery volume 2
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
429 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Marbella, Spain, Dr. Kate Warner awakens to a horrifying reality: the human race stands on the brink of extinction. A pandemic unlike any before it has swept the globe. Nearly a billion people are dead -- and those the Atlantis Plague doesn't kill, it transforms at the genetic level. A few rapidly evolve. The remainder devolve. As the world slips into chaos, radical solutions emerge. Industrialized nations offer a miracle drug, Orchid, which they...
Author
Series
Origin mystery volume 3
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
As the clock ticks down to humanity's extinction, a team of scientists will risk everything to unravel the secrets of the past. Northern Morocco: Dr. Kate Warner cured a global pandemic, and she thought she could cure herself. She was wrong. And she was wrong about the scope of the Atlantis conspiracy. Humanity faces a new threat, an enemy beyond imagination. With her own time running out and the utter collapse of human civilization looming, a new...
Author
Series
Origin mystery volume 1
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
436 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
70,000 years ago, the human race almost went extinct. We survived, but no one knows how. Until now. The countdown to the next stage of human evolution is about to begin, and humanity might not survive this time. The Immari are good at keeping secrets. For 2,000 years, they've hidden the truth about human evolution. They've also searched for an ancient enemy -- a threat that could wipe out the human race. Now the search is over. Off the coast of Antarctica,...
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