Andrew Knoll, "A Brief History of Earth," reviewed by Jonathan Shaw
Photograph courtesy of Andrew Knoll A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters, by Andrew H. Knoll (Custom House|HarperCollins, $22.99) Earth, with its mountains and rivers, forests and grasslands, oceans and marshes, is home to an extraordinary range of life. It is also the source of the food—and air—that sustain humanity, and of the natural resources—coal and oil, gold and diamonds—that have supported civilization, with all its cultural and social glories and shortcomings. But the planet has not always been so hospitable to life, as Fisher professor of natural...
Source: harvardmagazine.com