Over the past four billion years, living organisms have played a key role in transforming and creating everything from sediments and minerals to the global atmosphere and local climate.
It was various organisms – from bacteria to flowering plants and mammals – that turned the third planet from the Sun into an inhabited world, created its current atmosphere, and significantly influenced the composition of the World Ocean and the rocky shell – the lithosphere.
No significant mineral reserves—from organic coal and oil to seemingly inert gold—could be formed without the influence of living organisms.
Join the Ste. Genevieve Museum Learning Center on Wednesday, August 7 at 7 pm when Dr. Natalia Bykova from University of Missroui Columbia, will walk the audience through the substantial milestones of the Earth’s evolution which were triggered by living organisms.
How organisms shaped our planet through time, the next in the speaker series at the Ste. Genevieve MuseumLearning Center. sponsored by Laurie Ebeling, State Farm Agent.
Speaker presentations are free to museum members, otherwise, museum admission will apply.