Author Robert M. Hazen writes of how the co-evolution of the geosphere and biosphere\u2014of rocks and living matter\u2014has shaped our planet into the only one of its kind in the Solar System, if not the entire cosmos.
\nWith an astrobiologist\u2019s imagination, a historian\u2019s perspective, and a naturalist\u2019s passion for the ground beneath our feet, Hazen explains how changes on an atomic level translate into dramatic shifts in Earth\u2019s makeup over its 4.567 billion year existence. He calls upon a flurry of recent discoveries to portray our planet\u2019s many iterations in vivid detail. Through his theory of \u201cco-evolution,\u201d we learn how reactions between organic molecules and rock crystals may have generated Earth\u2019s first organisms, which in turn are responsible for more than two-thirds of the mineral varieties on the planet.<\/p>\n
The Story of Earth is also the story of the pioneering men and women behind the sciences. Readers will meet black-market meteorite hawkers of the Sahara Desert, the gun-toting Feds who guarded the Apollo missions\u2019 lunar dust, and the World War II Navy officer whose super-pressurized \u201cbomb\u201d\u2014recycled from military hardware\u2014first simulated the molten rock of Earth\u2019s mantle. As a mentor to a new generation of scientists, Hazen introduces the intrepid young explorers whose dispatches from Earth\u2019s harshest landscapes will revolutionize geology.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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