What On Earth Happened? The Complete Story of the Planet, Life, and People From the Big Bang Theory to the Present Day by Christopher Lloyd (HC/DJ)

A gorgeously illustrated and wholly comprehensive timeline of the earth's entire history that explains how everything is interconnected.

As comprehensive as the subtitle suggests, What on Earth Happened is a primer for Planet Earth, a giant narrative leap across time and space, one seismic change at a time. Combining the history of earth science and the history of human civilization, What on Earth Happened covers how the earth was formed, how life began, the way the ecosystem works, how species evolved, the rise of man, migration, the development of tools, language, agriculture, art, transportation, architecture, cities, religion, government, global conflicts, and medicine. In short, it shows how everything―from the mountains and flowers and the birds and the bees to the Iraq war and the oil under the Arctic―is all wonderfully, complexly interconnected.