Scatter, Adapt, and Remember How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction

Name: Scatter, Adapt, and Remember How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction
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ISBN: 9780307949424

ISBN-10: 0307949427

ISBN-13: 9780307949424

Edition: 2014

Authors: Annalee Newitz

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In its 4.5 billion-year history, life on Earth has been almost erased at least half a dozen times: shattered by asteroid impacts, entombed in ice, smothered by methane, and torn apart by unfathomably powerful megavolcanoes. And we know that another global disaster is eventually headed our way. Can we survive it? How?As a species, Homo sapiens is at a crossroads. Study of our planet's turbulent past suggests that we are overdue for a catastrophic disaster, whether caused by nature or by human interference.It's a frightening prospect, as each of the Earth's past major disasters--from meteor strikes to bombardment by cosmic radiation--resulted in a mass extinction, where more than 75 percent…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/8/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.16" wide x 7.91" long x 0.74" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English