As humans get ever closer to reaching Mars, imagine for a moment that one has already been there; even more, imagine that Mars is where we came from in the first place. This is what Dr. Patch Lieveert suspects, and he decides to explore this possibility. Through his unique talents, Lieveert manages to visit Mars—takes him about forty-five minutes—and collect DNA samples. Now, he simply has to prove his claims to the rest of the scientific community in The Nature of Mars.

About the Author

Dr. Patch Lieveert is a professor of microbiology and immunology with an undergraduate degree emphasizing geology. He does astrophysics in the evening as a hobby. Lieveert teaches medical and dental students for which he has been given multiple teaching awards, including a National Teacher of the Year Award from his scientific society. With Lieveert’s clinical colleagues, he has published nearly 450 manuscripts and has described twenty-three new diseases, their causes, and how to manage them clinically. He is married and has one daughter. His hobbies include anything that manages momentum shift: he runs, plays racquetball, and use to figure skate and pole vault. He has run twenty-eight marathons, the last one being October 2019. Lieveert reads a lot, usually one book a week.