Quarks to Culture - How We Came to Be

Tyler Volk is professor of biology and environmental studies at New York University and a recipient of the University's Distinguished Teaching Award and Golden Dozen Award. His books include Metapatterns: Across Space, Time, and Mind (Columbia, 1995); Gaia's Body: Toward a Physiology of Earth (1998); and CO2 Rising: The World's Greatest Environmental Challenge (2008).