The Eternal Frontier by Tim Flannery, Heinemann, £20, ISBN
0434008664
SPECTACULAR advances in understanding how our planet works have enabled
biologists to join forces with earth scientists. The result is the most
satisfying holistic treatment of the co-evolution of life and the Earth to
date.
Tim Flannery shows us the benefits of this alliance. In The Eternal
Frontier he focuses on North America. We move from the moment when the
great Chicxulub meteorite struck, 65 million years ago, right through to the
present.
Flannery’s reasons for focusing on this particular period are based on the
individuality of the continent. North…
