Walter Alvarez, professor of geology at the University of California, Berkeley, received the Penrose Medal, the top honor in geology, and is the best-selling author of T. Rex and the Crater of Doom. He lives in Berkeley, California.
"[Alvarez] revels in the unlikely reality of life on
Earth...enabling readers to experience the power of Big History."
-- Science
"Fans of Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly
Everything will appreciate Alvarez's enthusiastic, clearly
written tour of contingencies that have shaped our world, starting
with the origins of life on Earth." -- Science News
"For the past three decades, Walter Alvarez has been at the center
of a revolution in how scientists think about the history of life
and the Earth. In A Most Improbable Journey he gives us
the biggest history of all, going from the Big Bang to our own
place on the planet. Lively and profound and flavored with his
infectious enthusiasm, Alvarez shows how each of us has won a truly
massive lottery just to be a sentient being on this planet." --
Neil Shubin, best-selling author of Your Inner Fish
"A wonderful account of Big History by a geologist. And not just
any geologist, but the geologist who showed that the dinosaurs were
done in by an unlucky asteroid strike! Alvarez writes with
precision and great charm. And he reminds us how absurdly
improbable is the role we play in this colossal story, and how many
things had to go right for you and me to exist." -- David
Christian, founder of the field of Big History and author of Maps
of Time
"Engaging." -- Nature
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