Andrew H. Knoll
Andrew H. Knoll is the Fisher Professor of Natural History at Harvard University. His honours include the International Prize for Biology, the Charles Doolittle Walcott and the Mary Clark Thompson Medals of the National Academy of Sciences, the Paleontological Society Medal, and the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society of London. For nearly two decades he served on the science team for NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission. Knoll is also the author of Life on a Young Planet, for which he received the Phi Beta Kappa Book Award in Science.
A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
Harvard's acclaimed geologist charts Earth's history in accessible style (AP) A sublime chronicle of our planet. -Booklist, STARRED review How well do you know the ground beneath your feet? Odds... (more)
A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
How well do you know the ground beneath your feet? Odds are, where you're standing was once cooking under a roiling sea of lava, crushed by a towering sheet of ice, rocked by a nearby meteor strike,... (more)