The Co-Creation
Autor Olivia Judsonen Limba Engleză Hardback – dec 2026
A daring new planetary history, one that focuses our attention on the beautiful and dynamic dance between life and Earth, from Olivia Judson, the bestselling and award-winning author of Dr. Tatiana’s Sex Advice to All Creation
How do we–living creatures–fit into the grand cosmic tapestry unfolding all around us? With rare style and radical originality, Olivia Judson proposes a grand new vision of the nature of life and advances a dazzling argument about how Earth went from an alien world utterly devoid of life 4.4 billion years ago to a planet of riotous life today. She describes how Earth gave rise to a new force of nature—lifeforms—and shows how, over vast spans of time, these lifeforms have acted to transform Earth. To tell this story, Judson divides the planet’s history into a series of five expansions—rock, light, oxygen, flesh, fire—each characterized by the evolution of lifeforms able to access a new source of energy. This conception not only provides a new way to think about the history of this planet, but also about the development of life-planet systems elsewhere.
In prose that is by turns erudite, philosophical, amusing, poetic, vivid, yet always accessible, Judson reveals astonishing connections between the microscopic and the cosmic, the animate and the inanimate, and places us humans in the broader planetary and cosmic story. She explains where we have come from, how we differ from other lifeforms, and examines our deepest nature. This book brings a powerful mix of awe, solace, and wonder, and will forever change the way you see yourself and your planetary home.
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ISBN-13: 9780593831045
ISBN-10: 0593831047
Pagini: 560
Dimensiuni: 155 x 239 x 51 mm
Greutate: 0.74 kg
Editura: Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10: 0593831047
Pagini: 560
Dimensiuni: 155 x 239 x 51 mm
Greutate: 0.74 kg
Editura: Penguin Publishing Group
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Where did we come from? What does it mean to be 'alive'? And what is our place in the cosmos?
In her twenty-year journey to answer these questions, Olivia Judson has travelled to all seven continents and dived in several seas; she has made mental journeys to other worlds - the Moon, Venus, Mars; she has travelled back in time, haunted the rock collections of natural history museums, read scores of books and thousands of papers. The Co-Creation proposes a radical new way of understanding life on Earth: not as a story written in genes and DNA, but as one driven by energy.
Judson divides the history of our planet into five great epochas - rock, light, oxygen, flesh and fire - each marked by the unlocking of a new source of energy. Through these transformations, she argues, Earth evolved from a barren, asteroid-pummelled wasteland to the unique planet we inhabit today.
However, just as Earth made life, life itself became a powerful geological force that reshaped Earth - shifting the positions of continents, upheaving mountain ranges, changing the colour of the sky and causing vast oceans to open and close.
The Co-Creation reveals we are not merely occupiers of this planet, but integral to its very existence.
Where did we come from? What does it mean to be 'alive'? And what is our place in the cosmos?
In her twenty-year journey to answer these questions, Olivia Judson has travelled to all seven continents and dived in several seas; she has made mental journeys to other worlds - the Moon, Venus, Mars; she has travelled back in time, haunted the rock collections of natural history museums, read scores of books and thousands of papers. The Co-Creation proposes a radical new way of understanding life on Earth: not as a story written in genes and DNA, but as one driven by energy.
Judson divides the history of our planet into five great epochas - rock, light, oxygen, flesh and fire - each marked by the unlocking of a new source of energy. Through these transformations, she argues, Earth evolved from a barren, asteroid-pummelled wasteland to the unique planet we inhabit today.
However, just as Earth made life, life itself became a powerful geological force that reshaped Earth - shifting the positions of continents, upheaving mountain ranges, changing the colour of the sky and causing vast oceans to open and close.
The Co-Creation reveals we are not merely occupiers of this planet, but integral to its very existence.
Recenzii
'A fascinating and original account of the history of life... full of new insights about evolution and history, and even more importantly- with new viewpoints'
'A landmark work of science writing.Wildly ambitious and utterly compelling, Olivia Judson has chronicled the greatest narrative of all-the full history of life, Earth, and the intimate, perpetual dance between the two.'
'A triumphant return for Dr. Tatiana...At turn luscious, heady, and strange, The Co-Creation updates the Gaia hypothesis with modern physics and a neo-Victorian sweep of ecology that would make George Eliot proud. Judson places us just as we are: not on the Earth, but made of it.'
"A majestic grand tour of the history of our planet, The Co-Creation provides a fresh and exhilarating view of what life itself is and how it arises and evolves."
'An epic poem worthy of Gaia herself. Withvivid writing, enchanting detailand colossal scale, Olivia Judson brings to life the flows of energy that animated our world, from the first cells through global glaciations wrought by bacteria, to the planet-sculpting of animals and our own high-octane lives. Building layer upon layer, under the watchful eye of her Planetary Accountant, Judson has written amarvellouspaean to our living rock.'
'Olivia Judson takes on the deepest mysteries of life and emerges witha vision as surprising as it is awe-inspiring. Thisbeautifulbook tells the earth's story as it has never been told before-a planet tumultuous and creative, continually remade by the lifeforms it spawns.'
'A highly readable, important, and new way of thinking about life and Earth. The Co-Creation is excellent.'
'An exceptionally clear history of the amazing dance of organics and inorganics that constitutes this living Earth in its current moment of co-evolution. What we are together is illuminated by this knowledge, andthis is not only helpful as we figure out what to do as a civilization now, but delightful in and of itself. Highly recommended!'
'Epic in scope, rigorously researched, and intellectually thrilling,The Co-Creation is an extraordinary feat of synthesis and scholarship and a masterwork of science writing. Olivia Judson illuminates the fundamental connections between energy, evolution, life, and Earth with unprecedented clarity, memorable metaphors, and profound insights. Judson has crafted nothing less than the most compelling proposal for the origin of life that I have ever encountered, an incisive explanation of what makes living things unique, and a brilliant new framework for understanding the eons-long evolution of our living planet. This book should be read closely, shared widely, and cherished by all.'
'Captivating...The satisfyingly sprawling latest by evolutionary biologist Olivia Judson (Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation) takes the reader on vividly sensuous time-traveling trips to various points in pre-history . . . conveying a giddy sense of wonder that sweeps the reader along in its wake.'
'Judson's fascinating natural history of the world-and all the life on it . . . Judson's hypothesis offers a new way of thinking about how we got here, what came before, and why the incredible ecosystems that sustain us are so very important.'
'A landmark work of science writing.Wildly ambitious and utterly compelling, Olivia Judson has chronicled the greatest narrative of all-the full history of life, Earth, and the intimate, perpetual dance between the two.'
'A triumphant return for Dr. Tatiana...At turn luscious, heady, and strange, The Co-Creation updates the Gaia hypothesis with modern physics and a neo-Victorian sweep of ecology that would make George Eliot proud. Judson places us just as we are: not on the Earth, but made of it.'
"A majestic grand tour of the history of our planet, The Co-Creation provides a fresh and exhilarating view of what life itself is and how it arises and evolves."
'An epic poem worthy of Gaia herself. Withvivid writing, enchanting detailand colossal scale, Olivia Judson brings to life the flows of energy that animated our world, from the first cells through global glaciations wrought by bacteria, to the planet-sculpting of animals and our own high-octane lives. Building layer upon layer, under the watchful eye of her Planetary Accountant, Judson has written amarvellouspaean to our living rock.'
'Olivia Judson takes on the deepest mysteries of life and emerges witha vision as surprising as it is awe-inspiring. Thisbeautifulbook tells the earth's story as it has never been told before-a planet tumultuous and creative, continually remade by the lifeforms it spawns.'
'A highly readable, important, and new way of thinking about life and Earth. The Co-Creation is excellent.'
'An exceptionally clear history of the amazing dance of organics and inorganics that constitutes this living Earth in its current moment of co-evolution. What we are together is illuminated by this knowledge, andthis is not only helpful as we figure out what to do as a civilization now, but delightful in and of itself. Highly recommended!'
'Epic in scope, rigorously researched, and intellectually thrilling,The Co-Creation is an extraordinary feat of synthesis and scholarship and a masterwork of science writing. Olivia Judson illuminates the fundamental connections between energy, evolution, life, and Earth with unprecedented clarity, memorable metaphors, and profound insights. Judson has crafted nothing less than the most compelling proposal for the origin of life that I have ever encountered, an incisive explanation of what makes living things unique, and a brilliant new framework for understanding the eons-long evolution of our living planet. This book should be read closely, shared widely, and cherished by all.'
'Captivating...The satisfyingly sprawling latest by evolutionary biologist Olivia Judson (Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation) takes the reader on vividly sensuous time-traveling trips to various points in pre-history . . . conveying a giddy sense of wonder that sweeps the reader along in its wake.'
'Judson's fascinating natural history of the world-and all the life on it . . . Judson's hypothesis offers a new way of thinking about how we got here, what came before, and why the incredible ecosystems that sustain us are so very important.'