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This audiobook narrated by Christopher Ragland tells the epic story of a planetary conversation four billion years in the making
How did the world as we know it—from the soil beneath our feet to the air we breathe and the life that surrounds us—come to be? Geologists have proposed one set of answers while biologists have proposed another.
Earth and Life is the first book to reveal why we need to listen to both voices—the physical and the biological—to understand how we and our planet became possible.
In this captivating book, Andrew Knoll traces how all life is sustained by Earth's geological and atmospheric dynamics, and how life itself shapes the physical environment. Taking readers on a thrilling journey across four billion years of Earth history, he shows how Earth and life interact to cycle the very elements of life from rocks, water, and air, and how these and related processes control our climate, regulate our atmosphere, and support the diversification of life-forms great and small. Along the way, Knoll explains how we can draw on this history as we navigate the challenges of the Anthropocene, and how it can aid our search for life elsewhere in the universe.
Blending cutting-edge science with illuminating insights from a leading expert,
Earth and Life explains how this ongoing interplay holds vital lessons for us today as humanity becomes an increasingly major voice in the conversation.
Audiobook details
GenreScience and Nature
Length8 hrs 11 mins
Narrated byChristopher Ragland
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateMar 31, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Opening Credit
11Chapter 10 - The Story of O, Part 2
2Chapter 1 - Discovering the Conversation
12Chapter 11 - The Story of O, Part 3
3Chapter 2 - The Nature of the Conversation- Starting with C
13Chapter 12 - The Minerals of Life
4Chapter 3 - Expanding the Alphabet- N and P
14Chapter 13 - Plants Enter the Conversation
5Chapter 4 - Completing Life's Alphabet- S and Trace Elements
15Chapter 14 - Climate and Habitability
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6Chapter 5 - Water and Oxygen
16Chapter 15 - Close Calls?
7Chapter 6 - Trimming the Tree of Life
17Chapter 16 - The Conversation in the Twenty-First Century
8Chapter 7 - Living on a Dynamic Planet
18Chapter 17 - Other Conversations? Mars
9Chapter 8 - The Conversation Begins
19Chapter 18 - Other Conversations? Everywhere Else
10Chapter 9 - The Story of O, Part 1
20End Credit
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