Living on Earth: Forests, Corals, Consciousness, and the Making of the World

by Peter Godfrey-Smith

The bestselling author of Other Minds shows how we and our ancestors have reinvented our planet.

If the history of the Earth were compressed down to a year, our species would arise in the last thirty minutes or so of the final hour. But life itself is not such a late arrival: It has existed on Earth for something like 3.7 billion years--most of our planet's history and over a quarter of the age of the universe (as far as we...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374189935
• ISBN13: 9780374189938
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.7" x 8.3"