The Cosmic Connection
Jeff Kanipe
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The Cosmic Connection

How Astronomical Events Impact Life on Earth

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In this sweeping tour of the cosmos and our place within it, acclaimed science writer Jeff Kanipe shows the many ways we are connected to the vast universe we inhabit. Long before our apelike ancestors dropped from the trees and began playing with fire, even before the Sun emerged from its chrysalis of dust and irradiated its brood of planets, numberless and nameless astronomical events affected Earth and its emerging life-forms. Our chemical makeup—from the iron in our blood to the calcium in our bones—derives from stars that lived and died hundreds of millions of years ago. Comets have s...