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Scatter, Adapt, And Remember: How Humans Will Survive A Mass Extinction (2013)

by Annalee Newitz(Favorite Author)

3.44 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0385535910 (ISBN13: 9780385535915)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Doubleday

review 1: This thought-provoking book touches all the apocalyptic bases for a home run.Starts by covering the mass extinctions through the history of our planet, then touches on the question of whether we are in (or are causing) a mass extinction now. Three short chapters cover groups that were successful scattering, adapting, and remembering, and then moves to a discussion of how well these strategies would work against future potential disasters. Science fiction authors discussed include Arthur C. Clarke, Octavia Butler and Paul McAuley. Extensive notes and references and a decent index conclude this thought-provoking book. Recommended!
review 2: Covers a wide range of topics...too wide...from extinction history, evolution and early human migration to genetics, space c... moreolonization, terraforming, and on and on. Consequently, each of these potentially fascinating subjects is given short shrift and broad-brush generalizations, and I felt short-changed. In addition as a geologist and chemist, there are too many factual errors here with which I can comfortably cope, and way WAY to much emphasis on consensus (real or perceived) when there is none. less

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