Here On Earth: A Natural History of the Planet April 21, 2011

Lecture and booksigning
In his newest book, Here on Earth, Tim Flannery, Australian scientist and author, offers a sweeping account of the dual evolutionary history of Earth and the life it supports. Beginning with the birth of stars to the creation of water and the accident of simple life forms, Flannery will document life up through the 2-million-year rise of our human species and ponders our future as a "superorganism" capable of either sustaining or destroying the planet's ecosystems.

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