There's no evidence for it, but i don't think there's any reason why it couldn't happen. Bacteria can be entombed in grains of salt for a billion years. There are bits of mars that were blasted off the surface of mars that now are on the earth. The meteorite that brought the end of the dinosaurs had been a hundred million years in the making. It originated from a particular collision in the outer solar system and mas been circling around, waiting to strike.
In this episode, we sit down with Henry Ernest Gee, the paleontologist, evolutionary biologist and senior editor of the scientific journal Nature.
I was honored to get the opportunity chat with one of the absolute titans of science journalism and science communication about his new book: A Very Short History of Life on Earth, 4.6 billion years in 12 chapters.
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