PRESENTER: ANDREW H. KNOLL, FISHER PROFESSOR OF NATURAL HISTORY, HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Placing 21st-century climate change in deep context, A Brief History of Earth is an indispensable look at where we’ve been and where we’re going.

Odds are, where you’re standing was once cooking under a roiling sea of lava, crushed by a towering sheet of ice, rocked by a nearby meteor strike, or perhaps choked by poison gases, drowned beneath an ocean, perched atop a mountain range, or roamed by fearsome monsters. But only recently have we begun to piece together the whole mystery into a coherent narrative. Drawing on his decades of field research and up-to-the-minute understanding of the latest science, renowned geologist Andrew H. Knoll delivers a rigorous yet accessible biography of Earth, charting our home planet’s epic 4.6-billion-year story.

Andrew H. Knoll is the Fisher Professor of Natural History at Harvard University. Following five years on the faculty of Oberlin College, Knoll returned to Harvard as Associate Professor of Biology in 1982. He has been a member of the Harvard faculty ever since, 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. For the past decade, he has served on the science team for NASA’s MER mission to Mars.
This event is co-sponsored by Cuyahoga County Public Library and will be broadcast live on Zoom. Registration and an email address are required to receive the link to participate. Order your copy of A Brief History of Earth from Mac’s Backs – Books on Coventry.