"Thus passes the glory of the world.": 8/8: Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds, by Thomas Halliday.
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🗓️ 24 July 2023
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"Thus passes the glory of the world.": 8/8: 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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| 0:00.0 | This is CBSI on the World. |
| 0:03.6 | I'm John Batchewa, Thomas Halliday. |
| 0:05.7 | His book is Other Lands, taking his back and back to 500 million years ago and more. |
| 0:13.0 | We go now to the Cambrian. |
| 0:14.7 | This is a present day fossils in China. |
| 0:19.3 | And the scene is set by Thomas' magical writing. |
| 0:23.6 | The land was desolate and dry. |
| 0:25.9 | There was an extreme greenhouse world. |
| 0:29.0 | And we're looking at what was happening underwater in the sea and the vast sea. |
| 0:35.9 | Thomas, you report that all modern filers were present at this moment right now. |
| 0:41.4 | So all of what we are is descended from here. |
| 0:45.8 | Where should we look? |
| 0:47.0 | Should we look at the fish? |
| 0:48.0 | Should we look at the sponges? |
| 0:51.0 | The worm like worms? |
| 0:52.6 | Where do we come from? |
| 0:54.6 | During the Cambrian, this is, classically, sort of a Cambrian explosion where you get |
| 1:00.8 | the first representatives of all of the filers. |
| 1:03.2 | So a phylum in a biological sense is really a group that shares the same kind of body |
| 1:09.1 | plans. |
| 1:10.1 | So of vertebrates as a whole, there are phylims. |
| 1:12.2 | So the phylum that includes fish and you and me and reptiles and birds and frogs and |
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