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Andrew Knoll is the Fisher Professor of Natural History at Harvard University. He has been a member of the Harvard faculty since 1982, serving as both Professor of Biology and Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Professor Knoll's research focuses on the early evolution of life, Earth's environmental history, and, especially, the interconnections between the two. He has conducted field research on five continents and for two decades served on the science team for NASA's MER mission to Mars. Professor Knoll's honors include the International Prize for Biology, the Walcott Medal and the Mary Clark Thompson Medal of the National Academy of Sciences, the Oparin Medal of the International Society for the Study of the Origins of Life, the Moore Medal of the Society for Sedimentary Geology, the Paleontological Society Medal, and the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society of London. Knoll is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society, and is a foreign member of the Royal Society of London. His first book, Life on a Young Planet (Princeton University Press) received the Phi Beta Kappa Book Award in Science.
A fantastic distillation of Earth's history, from one of the world's leading geologists: Andrew H. Knoll has written an engrossing, witty, and eminently readable romp through our home planet's 4.5 billion years, from trilobites and dinosaurs to human origins and our rapidly changing modern times. -- <strong>Steve Brusatte, <em>New York Times </em>bestselling author of <em>The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs</em></strong> Having spent decades at the forefront of discovery and research, Andrew H. Knoll has been one of our planet's leading scientists. In A Brief History of Earth, Knoll treats us to a 4.6-billion-year detective story revealing the origins and inner workings of our home in the solar system. In these pages you'll discover something profound: how our past, present, and future are grounded in Planet Earth. -- <strong>Neil Shubin, author of <em>Your Inner Fish</em> and <em>Some Assembly Required</em></strong> Covers the arc of our planet's history from its earliest formation to the present day in a succinct and deftly-written way. -- <strong>Forbes</strong> Skillfully condenses the history of the Earth. ... An expert primer on the history of everything. -- <strong>Kirkus Reviews</strong> A sublime chronicle of our planet's formation and beginnings, the perhaps unlikely yet awe-inspiring interactions that created life, diverse and abundant, and mass extinctions and recoveries. Knoll skillfully presents the extreme conditions, violence, and delicate fragility that mark the cycles and evolution of our home. -- <strong><em>Booklist </em>(starred review)</strong> Charts the planet's history in accessible style, from its beginning as 'a small planet accreted out of rocky debris circling a modest young star' through the development of minerals, geographical formations, atmosphere, and life forms large and small. -- <strong>Associated Press</strong> The type of book that is sorely needed at this moment in history. ... Knoll assembles facts from a wide variety of fields to tell our planet's story in a clear and accessible narrative. -- <strong>Scientific Inquirer</strong>
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