On a cooler sun on a primordial earth: 'I later learned that...

"On a cooler sun on a primordial earth: 'I later learned that biologists, when they are feeling jocose, refer to this as the 'Chinese Resaturant Problem'--because we has a dim sun."

Bill Bryson

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