A Brief History of Earth av Andrew H. Knoll

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<p><strong>Harvard’s acclaimed geologist “charts Earth’s history in accessible style” (AP)</strong></p><p><strong>“A sublime chronicle of our planet." –<em>Booklist,</em> STARRED review</strong></p><p>How well do you know the ground beneath your feet? </p><p>Odds are, where you’re standing was once cooking under a roiling sea of lava, crushed by a towering sheet of ice, rocked by a nearby meteor strike, or perhaps choked by poison gases, drowned beneath ocean, perched atop a mountain range, or roamed by fearsome monsters. Probably most or even all of the above. </p><p>The story of our home planet and the organisms spread across its surface is far more spectacular than any Hollywood blockbuster, filled with enough plot twists to rival a bestselling thriller. But only recently have we begun to piece together the whole mystery into a coherent narrative. Drawing on his decades of field research and up-to-the-minute understa