Jens Harder

A personal interpretation of the textbook of Human Evolution. An aspiring attempt but there are limitations for graphic literature as the medium. Similar to Richard McGuire's "Here", juxtaposition is heavily used as the vehicle for stories delivery. But Homo sapiens' progression is way more complicated than just putting two epochs into two rectangle grids next to each other. Sure, we still have a pre-civilization bodies as civilization (7,000 years) is just 2% of Human evolution (350,000 years). But our minds have been progressing upward and civilization is a quintessential component of this development. So no, history never repeats.… (mehr)

An amazing graphic work showing the history of the planet Earth from the big bang, to the formation of the planet, the beginnings of life and the life of each subsequent geological age., Jens Harder has diligently rendered dinosaurs, landscapes, foliage, ice ages. This is visual Big History. This volume finishes at the dawn of humankind.

My only reservation is the inclusion of various religious and other human images in the earlier geological ages. The author (though not particularly religious) said he included them to break up the other pictures but it didn't work for me.… (mehr)