Open AccessStepping Stones: Evolving the Earth and Its Life
Author(s) -
McKay Christopher P.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/00eo00140
Subject(s) - geologist , reading (process) , discipline , task (project management) , earth system science , earth science , astrobiology , computer science , engineering ethics , mathematics education , sociology , geology , engineering , psychology , political science , social science , law , biology , paleontology , oceanography , systems engineering
In recent years, science has begun to consider more system‐level studies that cross disciplines. These studies challenge our traditional disciplinary training. It is no longer enough to be just a geologist when the problems of interest deal with an entire planet. Indeed, a knowledge of biology, geology astronomy, and myriad subfields is needed. In Stepping Stones , Stephen Drury steps up to the daunting task of writing a general treatment of the science of the entire Earth. He not only ranges through all of the relevant physical sciences but also reaches to economics and political theory. The material is presented at a general level with reading lists but no specific references. Equations have been minimized.