{"product_id":"earth-and-life-mike-feng-zheng-9798250354912","title":"Earth and Life: From a Molten World to the Age of Primates","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEarth and Life: From a Molten World to the Age of Primates\u003c\/i\u003e is a cause-and-effect journey through 4.5 billion years of Earth's history-told in plain, clear language, but built on real science. This is not a timeline of facts. It is a logical reconstruction of how a dead, molten planet became a stable world with oceans, continents, ecosystems, dinosaurs, mammals, and eventually primates.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou begin at the true starting line: a universe that initially had almost no heavy elements, the birth and death of ancient stars, and the formation of the solar system. From there, the book follows Earth's earliest chaos-accretion, magma oceans, violent impacts, core formation, and the giant collision that produced the Moon. Instead of treating these as \"cool events,\" it shows what they \u003ci\u003echanged\u003c\/i\u003e: rotation, axial stability, atmosphere retention, long-term climate behavior, and the physical boundary conditions that made later biology possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Earth cools, the story moves into the systems that keep a planet habitable for billions of years: plate tectonics, the carbon cycle, greenhouse balance, ocean chemistry, and the slow transformation of the atmosphere. You'll see why liquid water is not just \"nice to have,\" why oxygen revolutionized metabolism, and why complex life arrived late rather than early. Mass extinctions are explained as structural reset points-destructive but also opening new ecological space-leading from the age of dinosaurs to the rise of mammals, expanding brains, and the long road to the age of primates.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten for curious readers who want clarity \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e depth, \"Earth and Life\" connects astronomy, geology, climate physics, and evolution into one continuous chain-so by the end, you don't just know what happened. You understand why it could happen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mike Feng Zheng\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798250354912\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 456\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.33lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.92d","brand":"Mike Feng Zheng","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48997516378367,"sku":"9798250354912","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/earth-and-life-mike-feng-zheng-9798250354912","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}