Earth shaped life then life shaped Earth
Jaganmoy Jodder |
TEDxJohannesburgSalon
• October 2022
Jaganmoy opens his talk by stepping onto the TEDxJohannesburg stage carrying a rock containing fossilised traces of life from billions of years ago – ancestors of all life forms on Earth today! And with that, he asks a surprising question: how would life from elsewhere in the universe (if any) identify us? Would it view humans as distinct from animals, insects, reptiles, trees, and other organisms? He describes the co-evolution of life and Earth in dramatic detail, explaining how ancient geological processes interacted with biological entities to shape our Earth. Who we are is undeniably intertwined with where we live.