从原子到鲸鱼，一起探索我们的宇宙以及生命的秘密

一颗石头、一只蜗牛、一锅滚烫的水所冒出来的泡泡，这些东西都有一个共同点：它们都是由物质构成。所有的东西都是由物质构成，包括你在内。这虽然听起来很显然，但物质到底是什么？数千年来，人类想要找到这个问题的答案，而作者希望这本书可以给你带来答案。我们在这本书中可以认识历史上那些知名的科学家以及他们伟大的发现，一起分析以及了解地球上的生物：从百万年前巨大的恐龙到最渺小的细菌，我们一一探索！看完这本书，你会发现我们所有人生命的历史，以及我们所有生物都有连结，都为这个地球以及宇宙贡献！

关于作者：

Barbara Gallavotti is a scientific popularizer, author and television presenter and writer. For over twenty years she has been the author of well-known television broadcasts such as Superquark and Ulisse and today she is the host of Quinta Dimensione, a first-time scientific program on Rai3, of which she is also the creator and author. Guest of various current affairs television broadcasts, she collaborates with numerous Italian newspapers and periodicals that publish her interventions. She has worked on radio broadcasts both in Italy and abroad, makes documentaries, take care of the setting up of scientific exhibitions and is the creator of Fattie per capire, made for the National Science and Technology Museum “Leonardo da Vinci” in Milan in association with the British “Science Media Centre”. The dissemination activity is complemented by the teaching and training activities by giving lectures and seminars on scientific communication in different universities. She is the author of various publications for children and popular essays for adults.