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Alexis Jenni: "Science is the permanent debate"

2/27/2022, 6:24:24 PM


INTERVIEW – The writer delivers, through the history of the five great mass extinctions of the Earth, a reflection on literature and scientific knowledge.

For five million years, the Earth has experienced five major catastrophes where life almost completely disappeared.

When is the sixth?

It will depend on the behavior of man vis-à-vis the planet.

Father of three children, the 2011 Goncourt Prize winner decided to put his pen to the service of life and Earth sciences, which he taught until 2013. After writing a book on trees last October, he publishes

This planet is not very safe,

at Humensciences.

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"I feel like I'm the only person over 12 who dreams of dinosaurs"

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What do they make you dream of?

Alexis JENNI.

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I like their baroque side.

If they appeared 240 million years ago, we mainly know those who died out, like 75% of species, 66 million years ago.

Plastic figurines in the children's departments have acquainted us with their various forms.

Some have large teeth or large claws, others have large…

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