Earth's Flips of State
The Co-Evolution of Life and Planet
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 22 August 2026
- ISBN 9780197825372
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages400 pages
- Size 235x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 42 b/w figures 0
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Short description:
Earth's Flips of State tackles the big questions: how did our species get to this point, the challenges it now faces, and the prospects of life elsewhere.
MoreLong description:
The history of the planet Earth has had periods of being in a distinct state with intervening critical transitions that see it 'flip' between states, for example between a world without atmospheric oxygen to one with a trace of it. These key transitions have been driven by a biological evolutionary innovations which interact with the Earth system. All of these critical transitions feature a number of characteristics that mark them out as distinctive from other Earth system changes, such as that caused by the dinosaur extinction asteroid and other mass extinctions. The fact that all of these characteristics are seen today suggests that we are now on the cusp of another such a key critical transition and that this is part of a process that stretches back billions of years. Additionally, this “co-evolution of life and planet” narrative speaks to the prospect of life elsewhere in the Solar system and even the Galaxy: it informs as to what we might find and where.
Earth's Flips of State speaks across disciplines: explaining biological evolution to geologists, geological Earth system evolution to life scientists, and even the relevant biology and geology to astronomers with an interest in exobiology. This book tackles the big questions as to how our species got to this point, the challenges it now faces, and the prospects of life elsewhere.
Table of Contents:
Introduction and Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: The young Earth
Chapter 2: Towards a flip
Chapter 3: Towards a Snowball
Chapter 4: A billion years towards the second flip
Chapter 5: The second flip and other Snowballs
Chapter 6: Jokers and Wild Cards
Chapter 7: Exobiological implications
Chapter 8: A new flip?
Chapter 9: Implications
Appendix 1: Abbreviations & Symbols
Appendix 2: Nomenclature, Data and Terms
Appendix 3: Bio-geological Timescale
Subject Index
