In watching episode 9 of the Cosmos, I thought there were several interesting points that could be related back to the discussion of biodiversity and biomes in the C&C book. For starters, learning how various biomes were different and how they have changed over the course of the Earth’s history was fascinating. To learn how the Earth moved from a much more heated planet, enough that it was said that the temperature was enough to bake bread is eye opening. However just like with many aspects of life, the biomes of Earth were ever changing and proved that they can be very volatile. One of the main reasons that the Earth became extremely heated was due to volcanic activity some 300 million years ago, leading this period of extreme heat. Or how
