EUROPA CLIPPER TO SEEK JUPITER SYSTEM'S OTHERLANDS: 2 /8: Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds, by Thomas Halliday.
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🗓️ 20 October 2024
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The past is past, but it does leave clues, and Thomas Halliday has used cutting-edge science to decipher them more completely than ever before. In Otherlands, Halliday makes sixteen fossil sites burst to life on the page.
This book is an exploration of the Earth as it used to exist, the changes that have occurred during its history, and the ways that life has found to adapt―or not. It takes us from the savannahs of Pliocene Kenya to watch a python chase a group of australopithecines into an acacia tree; to a cliff overlooking the salt pans of the empty basin of what will be the Mediterranean Sea just as water from the Miocene Atlantic Ocean spills in; into the tropical forests of Eocene Antarctica; and under the shallow pools of Ediacaran Australia, where we glimpse the first microbial life.EUROPA CLIPPER TO SEEK JUPITER SYSTEM'S OTHERLANDS: /8: Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds, by Thomas Halliday.
https://www.amazon.com/Otherlands-Journey-Through-Earths-Extinct/dp/B097CL2BVX/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr1
The past is past, but it does leave clues, and Thomas Halliday has used cutting-edge science to decipher them more completely than ever before. In Otherlands, Halliday makes sixteen fossil sites burst to life on the page.
This book is an exploration of the Earth as it used to exist, the changes that have occurred during its history, and the ways that life has found to adapt―or not. It takes us from the savannahs of Pliocene Kenya to watch a python chase a group of australopithecines into an acacia tree; to a cliff overlooking the salt pans of the empty basin of what will be the Mediterranean Sea just as water from the Miocene Atlantic Ocean spills in; into the tropical forests of Eocene Antarctica; and under the shallow pools of Ediacaran Australia, where we glimpse the first microbial life.
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| 0:30.0 | This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Bachelor. |
| 0:37.0 | It is a great joy to welcome the author Thomas Halliday, a paleontologist and an evolutionary biologist, his new book, Other |
| 0:46.1 | Lands, A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds. Thomas takes us backwards in time to what we know about the beginning of life as we |
| 0:56.4 | understand it has evolved over the 500 million plus years that we've watched multicellular life congeal and cooperate. We begin, |
| 1:07.5 | however, in something where Homo sapiens is present, it's called the Pleistocene and it's a matter of going to a place we know very |
| 1:19.2 | well which is Alaska, but this is a time when the sea levels are much lower and there is a connection |
| 1:28.8 | to Siberia called Beringia. |
| 1:31.8 | Thomas, congratulations, you write beautifully. And sometimes your |
| 1:37.1 | metaphors are so convincing. I don't want to use the scientific name. So what is the mammoth step and what was |
| 1:46.0 | happening there 20,000 years ago? Good evening Thomas. Good evening. |
| 1:50.7 | Yes, the mammoth step was during much of the place to see the largest ecosystem on the planet. |
| 1:57.0 | So it's a grassland which is managed by big herbivores, so mammoth as the name names of deaths, but also things like woolly rhinos and muscocks and bison and relatives of some of the creatures that are still around today, like Caribou and so on. |
| 2:14.9 | But it's fetched from Western Europe all the way through what is now Russia across, as you say, |
| 2:20.1 | this connection between Siberia and North America, as Buringia and then into Alaska and the Yukon. |
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