Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction
- ISBN-10
- 0804127301
- ISBN-13
- 9780804127301
- Category
- Extinction (Biology)
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013
- Author
- Annalee Newitz
Description
-- Homo sapiensIt'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 of the planet's species died out. But in -- Scatter, Adapt, and Remember is a compelling voice of hope. It leads us away from apocalyptic thinking into a future where we live to build a better world--on this planet and perhaps on others. Readers of this book will be equipped scientifically, intellectually, and emotionally to face whatever the future holds.
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- 2014-04
- 305 pages
- Paperback
- Anchor Books
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