“And there is an earlier Wilson cycle, too, a billion years old, entrapped alongside the Appalachians: the Grenville, which rises to the surface in Central Park, New York, to remind us that the human and urban is no more than foam on the sea of the past.”
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Richard Fortey
Richard Fortey is a British writer born in 1946. He is renowned for his profound understanding of natural history and his unique literary style. Fortey's works span a range of subjects from paleontology to modern science, and his books have won praise from both the academic community and the general public. more