Scatter, adapt, and remember : how humans will survive a mass extinction / Annalee Newitz

Author:: Newitz, Annalee, 1969-
Published:: New York : Anchor Books, 2014.
Copyright Date:: © 2103
Physical Description:: 305 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm

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Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I A HISTORY OF MASS EXTINCTIONS -- 1.The Apocalypse That Brought Us to Life -- 2.Two Ways to Go Extinct -- 3.The Great Dying -- 4.What Really Happened to the Dinosaurs -- 5.Is a Mass Extinction Going On Right Now? -- pt. II WE ALMOST DIDN'T MAKE IT -- 6.The African Bottleneck -- 7.Meeting the Neanderthals -- 8.Great Plagues -- 9.The Hungry Generations -- pt. III LESSONS FROM SURVIVORS -- 10.Scatter: Footprints of the Diaspora -- 11.Adapt: Meet the Toughest Microbes in the World -- 12.Remember: Swim South -- 13.Pragmatic Optimism, or Stories of Survival -- pt. IV HOW TO BUILD A DEATH-PROOF CITY -- 14.The Mutating Metropolis -- 15.Disaster Science -- 16.Using Math to Stop a Pandemic -- 17.Cities That Hide -- 18.Every Surface a Farm -- pt. V THE MILLION-YEAR VIEW -- 19.Terraforming Earth -- 20.Not in Our Planetary Backyard -- 21.Take a Ride on the Space Elevator -- 22.Your Body Is Optional -- 23.On Titan's Beach.

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ISBN:

9780307949424
0307949427

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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