otherlands journeys in earth's extinct ecosystems thomas halliday

The past is past, but it does leave clues, and Thomas Halliday has used cutting-edge science to decipher them more completely than ever before. Sapiens for natural history: a stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microbial life 550 million years ago, by a brilliant young paleobiologist. Bill McKibben, author of Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? He wears his grasp of vast scientific learning lightly this is as close to time travel as you are likely to get.” “Deep time is very hard to capture-even to imagine-and yet Thomas Halliday has done so in this fascinating volume. Professor Lewis Dartnell, author of Origins: How the Earth Shaped Human History Otherlands is science writing at its very finest.” Earth has been many different worlds over its planetary history, and Thomas Halliday is the perfect tour guide to these past landscapes and the extraordinary creatures that inhabited them. “An absolutely gripping adventure story, exploring the changing vistas of our own planet’s past. Andrea Wulf, author of The Invention of Nature Maybe most important, Otherlands is a timely reminder of our planet’s impermanence and what we can learn from the past.” You’ll find yourself next to giant two-meter penguins in a forested Antarctica 41 million years ago or hearing singing icebergs in South Africa some 444 million years ago. He takes quiet fossil records and complex scientific research and brings them alive-riotous, full-colored, and three-dimensional. “Thomas Halliday’s debut is a kaleidoscopic and evocative journey into deep time.

Otherlands journeys in earth's extinct ecosystems thomas halliday