This week we tackle one of the hardest questions that man has ever tried to answer: How life started on Earth. Once that is answered, the rest of evolution falls right into place. Dr. Henry Gee is an evolutionary Biologist, and has chronicled the entire 4.6 billion year timeline of the Earth in his latest book “A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth”. In it he discusses the explosion of life in the ocean, the several major extinction events that almost wiped out life completely, the monumental importance of the egg, how dinosaurs learned to fly, and why menopause is one of the most advanced traits of the human race. We also discuss his expertise on Middle Earth science, his work at Nature, and his world class review of Motorhead.
