Emeritus Professor of Palaeobiology at the University of Leicester, previously of the British Geological Survey, He is a member of the Anthropocene Working Group of the International Commission on Stratigraphy. A field geologist, palaeontologist, and stratigrapher, his particular fields of study include fossils and rocks of Early Palaeozoic times, and the Quaternary Ice Ages. He is a coeditor of The Anthropocene as a Geological Time Unit (2019). He most recently published The Cosmic Oasis: The Remarkable Story of Earth’s Biosphere (2022). His books include The Earth after Us (2008); The Planet in a Pebble (2010); Rocks: A Very Short Introduction (2016); and Geology: A Very Short Introduction (2018); and, with coauthor Mark Williams, The Goldilocks Planet 2012); Ocean Worlds (2014); and Skeletons (2018). Zalasiewicz led the first English translation of George-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon's 1778 Les époques de la nature (The Epochs of Nature, 2018).
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