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Lewis Dartnell

Nacido: March 21, 1980 – London, England, United Kingdom

Lewis Dartnell is a British astrobiologist, science communicator, and author whose work explores Mars microbiology, human history, and civilization through science. His notable books include The Knowledge, Origins, and Being Human; The Knowledge was a Sunday Times New Thinking Book of the Year and an international bestseller, while Being Human was a Waterstones Book of the Year.

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Lewis Dartnell is a British astrobiologist, science communicator and author whose career has developed at the intersection of laboratory research, deep history and public explanation. Born in the UK in 1980, he spent part of his childhood abroad, including formative school years in Nairobi, an experience he has linked to an early awareness of how unequal and contingent human lives can be. He was educated at Charterhouse, took a first-class degree in Biological Sciences at Oxford, and completed a PhD in astrobiology at University College London in 2007. Even before finishing doctoral work, he was emerging as a writer: UCL marked the publication of his first book, Life in the Universe, and noted his success in national science-writing prizes. ((https://www.timeshighereducation.com/books/the-knowledge-how-to-rebuild-our-world-from-scratch-by-lewis-dartnell/2012332.article))

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Imagine that the world as we know it ends tomorrow
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And the answer to that question is: maybe – but it would be extremely difficult
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It is science that built our modern world, and it is science that you will need to rebuild again
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In many ways, humans just don’t work well
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The fundamental aspects of what it means to be human haven’t changed
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The periodic table is 150 years old, and we need to learn how to protect its more vulnerable constituents
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Zero gravity is totally devastating to the human body in terms of muscle wastage and the demineralisation of the skeleton
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The Mars Sample Return will change all that by making Martian rock available to the most sophisticated analytical laboratories on Earth. That will give us the best possible chance of finding evidence that there was once life on Mars
-NASA’s mission to find signs of past life on Mars

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"Always an interesting and engaging writer, Dartnell finds fascinating nuggets in familiar stories"

The Guardian

"Lewis Dartnell, an astrobiologist and research scientist at the University of Westminster, explains what we might find in the search for life on Mars"

BBC Science Focus Magazine

"This is a topic that astrobiologist Lewis Dartnell researched in depth for his recent book, The Knowledge"

TED Blog

"Lewis Dartnell has a rare talent in being able to see the big picture — and explaining why it matters"

Peter Frankopan

"Lewis Dartnell is a renowned researcher and professor based at the University of Westminster"

The Guardian

"Astrobiologist Lewis Dartnell, who teaches at the University of Westminster, is best known for his writings and lectures on alien life"

Times of India

"Lewis Dartnell's absorbing new book shows how deeply human history is embedded in the history of planet earth"

David Christian

"Astrobiologist Lewis Dartnell’s new book looks at how human history has been nudged, influenced and shaped by the history of the Earth"

KQED

"Professor Lewis Dartnell takes us on an astonishing journey into our planet's past to tell the ultimate origin story"

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