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Scatter, Adapt, and Remember

How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction
Jun 10, 2018PimaLib_MatthewL rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
There have been five mass extinctions in the history of life on Earth and it looks like we might have started the sixth. In Scatter, Adapt and Remember, Newitz anticipates how humans will survive the coming disaster. She chronicles the survivors of past mass extinctions, including the mammals who survived the end of the dinosaurs, and details the lessons we can learn from them. Finally, she describes the technologies we will use to spread throughout the solar system, including a space elevator, much in the same way homo sapiens spread out of Africa as a new species. Newitz is very hopeful for us as a species and anticipates a million more years of human evolution, including an ability to adapt to living on other planets.