Here on earth
Subtitle: a natural history of the planet
By: Tim Flannery
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press; Distributed by Publishers Group West
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780802119766
Subjects: Origin; Life; Biosphere; Evolution (Biology); Earth sciences; Evolution; Historical geology; Earth; History
Description: An explorer and environmentalist offers a natural history of the Earth as well as a biography of the human species.
Notes: "First published in 2010 in Australia by the Text Publishing Company, Melbourne"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-298) and index.
Table of contents: title: section 1: Mother Nature or monster earth? Evolution's motive force ; Of genes, mnemes and destruction ; Evolution's legacy ; A fresh look at earth ; The commonwealth of virtue; title: section 2: A turbulent youth. Man the disrupter ; New worlds ; Biophilia; title: section 3: Ever since agriculture. Superorganisms ; Superorganismic glue ; Ascent of the ultimate superorganism; title: section 4: Toxic climax? War against nature ; Gaia-killers ; The eleventh hour? ; Undoing the work of ages; title: section 5: Our present state. The stars of heaven ; Discounting the future ; Greed and the market ; Of war and inequality ; A new tool kit ; Governance ; Restoring the life-force; title: section 6: An intelligent earth? What lies on the other side?