The first thi you might not have heard about. The infant earth was a ball of magma and er gases such as water vapor. It didn't hold things like hydrogen, which is why some of the gas giants are covered in hydrogen. But then when the earth had cooled from being a ball of Magma, it rainedit rained and itRained and it Rained. And never had pigle in his life seen so much rain millions and millions of millions of years. So i was trying to give that pictureof a water world with no oxygen in the atmosphere. I mean, l very little wo there wasn't ed cost te inethe.
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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