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I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest.

That's my passion.

So here's the title of the book.

A very short history of life on Earth, 4.6 billion years in 12 pithy chapters.

How many people on this planet can actually give a legitimate narration of life's life story?

My guest today, Henry G. is a senior editor at Nature and is the author of

probably more books than I can count.

He also happens to be a British paleontologist and evolutionary biologist.

So he's got the chops to pull off where we go today. And I'm telling you, I take him all over

the map. But he's a good, gracious guest who obliged me on all the different directions that I wanted to go.

Look, we can all get preoccupied with the latest whatever it is out in the news media about this and that. But you know what?

The little kid in all of us comes out when the dinosaur conversations start. And it just so happens

that Henry is actually a friend of the original T-Rex guy, Jack Horner, who was on this show very early on. So I'm bringing it

full circle. Without any further delay, let's jump right in with Henry and talk a little bit about

our planet, all 4.7 billion years of it. And where is it going in the future? Will it be around?

All kinds of interesting questions.

Without any further delay, let's jump right in.

Let's jump in. Let's jump in with something really big picture to get people into your world and your perspective.

I'm starting to notice, and here you are, you actually know a lot of the details, but I'm starting to notice that I'll talk to a lot of guests that perhaps have psychology backgrounds or business backgrounds or venture capital. And the next thing I know,

I'm being told about climate change. I just always kind of shake my head. Because I don't know,

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