Book description
Hailed by The New York Times for writing "with wonderful clarity about science . . . that effortlessly teaches as it zips along," nationally bestselling author Robert M. Hazen offers a radical new approach to Earth history in this intertwined tale of the planet's living and nonliving spheres. With anā¦
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Written with the clarity and zest of Bryson and McPhee, but with the added benefit that Hazen is a professional geologist. I like this book because of how Hazen takes the reader into the process of how a geologist works and thinks.Ā Hazenās specialty is mineralogy, and his main thesisāthat living organisms and minerals evolved together with each shaping the otherās futureāmakes for a unique and thought-provoking take on the history of our planet.Ā
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