Earth shaped life then life shaped Earth

Dr. Jaganmoy Jodder

Jaganmoy opens his talk by stepping onto the TEDxJohannesburg stage carrying a rock containing fossilised traces of life from billions of years ago – ancestors of all life forms on Earth today! And with that, he asks a surprising question: how would life from elsewhere in the universe (if any) identify us? Would it view humans as distinct from animals, insects, reptiles, trees, and other organisms? He describes the co-evolution of life and Earth in dramatic detail, explaining how ancient geological processes interacted with biological entities to shape our Earth. Who we are is undeniably intertwined with where we live.

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Jaganmoy Jodder joined the University of Johannesburg in 2016 to pursue his Ph.D. on the Archaean rock record of the Singhbhum Craton, India, under the supervision of Prof. Axel Hofmann. For his postdoctoral research, Jaganmoy is working with Prof. Pierre Durand at the Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, on "Co-operation and group-level behaviour recorded from the earliest microfossils on Earth." His interest is to understand the co-evolution of Earth and life.

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