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Nature Writing

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A World in the Making

By Dr Thomas Halliday

An epic, exhilarating journey into deep time, showing us the Earth as it used to exist, and the worlds that were here before ours.

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Thomas Halliday is an Associate Research Fellow at the Department of Earth Sciences of the University of Birmingham. His PhD won the Linnean Society Medal for the best thesis in the biological sciences in the UK, and he won the Hugh Miller Writing Competition in 2018. He was raised in Rannoch in the Scottish Highlands, and now lives in London with his family.

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