Publisher's Synopsis
Primal Testament is an epic poem about DNA, the inventor of life and death, and about the extinct and living species that are its children. They include the black bear and the sparrow, the first chordates Haikouella and Pikaia Gracilens, E-Coli, the flatworm, geologist Charles Lyell, chemist Rosalind Franklin, and the three hominins who 3.7 million years ago walked at Laetoli, Tanzania. Their story of lost paradise is told by two voices, a muse of great authority, and an early twenty-first century man humbled by its tale and language.
