Infinite life: a revolutionary story of eggs, evolution and life on Earth

Every egg there has ever been, is an emblem of survival.

Yet the evolution of the animal egg is the dramatic subplot missing in many accounts of how life on Earth came to be.

Quite simply, without this universal biological phenomenon, animals as we know them, including us, could not have evolved and flourished.

Zoology correspondent Jules Howard takes the reader on a mind-bending journey from the churning coastlines of the Cambrian Period and Carboniferous coal forests, where insects were stirring, to the end of the age of dinosaurs when live-birthing mammals began their modern rise to power.