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: 9780385535915

ISBN-10: 0385535910

ISBN-13: 9780385535915

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Authors: Annalee Newitz

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Climate change. Pandemics. Catastrophic volcanoes. Should we just give up and accept our doom? Absolutely not. Homo sapiens will survive the next mass extinction.Annalee Newitz's brilliantly speculative and hopeful work of popular science focuses our attention on humanity's long history of dodging the bullet of extinction—and suggests practical ways to keep doing it. From bacteria labs in St. Louis to ancient underground cities in central Turkey, we discover the keys to long-term survival. This book leads us away from apocalyptic thinking, into a future where we live to build a better world.

Book details

List price: $30.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/14/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English



Introduction: Are We All Going to Die?



A History of Mass Extinctions



The Apocalypse That Brought Us to Life



Two Ways to Go Extinct



The Great Dying



What Really Happened to the Dinosaurs



Is a Mass Extinction Going On Right Now?



We Almost Didn't Make It



The African Bottleneck



Meeting the Neanderthals



Great Plagues



The Hungry Generations



Lessons from Survivors



Scatter: Footprints of the Diaspora



Adapt: Meet the Toughest Microbes in the World



Remember: Swim South



Pragmatic Optimism, or Stories of Survival



How to Build a Death-Proof City



The Mutating Metropolis



Disaster Science



Using Math to Stop a Pandemic



Cities That Hide



Every Surface a Farm



The Million-Year View



Terraforming Earth



Not in Our Planetary Backyard



Take a Ride on the Space Elevator



Your Body Is Optional



On Titan's Beach


Acknowledgments


Notes


Illustration Credits


Index