Origin. Dartnal L.

We often talk about the role of personality in history, about revolutions and inventions, but we rarely think about what role in the biography of our species has played a natural environment: climate, relief, biodiversity. Thus, Lewis Dartnal claims that geological processes pushed the evolution of man in East Africa, democracy in ancient Greece was born thanks to the abundance of mountain landscapes, and voters in the United States still determine the boundaries of the ancient sea. The author is convinced that the history of mankind is the history of the Earth, tectonic processes, climate change, ocean and air currents.

How are the Himalayas, the orbit of the Earth and the formation of the British Islands? This will become clear if you look into the past planets, which is detached from today for billions of years. And where history becomes science, we will see a dense web of relationships that lines the modern world and helps to confidently look into the future. From the first crop of cultures to the formation of states: at each stage, the Earth was surprisingly influenced by the creation of human civilization.

Lewis Dartnil - the owner of a scientific degree in the field of biological sciences, professor of Westminster University, researcher, writer, popularizer of science. << /p>