Saajid Hosein's Reviews > A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters

This was a really good and comprehensive overview of Earth's history, I enjoyed it and learned a lot. Knoll takes an interdisciplinary approach to explaining the emergence and development of the planet through its various eras and periods.

I did have a few issues. Because its meant to be concise, some things get glossed over and I found some aspects here and there to be disjointed. I also wish that it centered a little bit more on the human/anthropological focus. Like instead of one chapter in the end that focused on humans, maybe have two or three - we kinda went from talking about early hominids to climate change pretty quickly with not enough focus on the in between.

I should say though that this was an audiobook listen for me, and while the narration was super well done, listening to a very sciency book with my attention deficit issues and general science illiteracy was not the best idea, so I'd say that that's something to consider before going into it.

Overall great read, or listen I guess.