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In its 4.5 billion-year history, life on Earth has been almost erased at least half a dozen times: shattered by asteroid impacts, entombed in ice, smothered by methane, and torn apart by unfathomably powerful megavolcanoes. And we know that another global disaster is eventually headed our way. Can we survive it? How? As a species, Homo sapiens is at a crossroads. Study of our planet’s turbulent past suggests that we are overdue for a catastrophic disaster, whether caused by nature or by human interference. It’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, Annalee Newitz, science journalist and editor of the science Web site io9.com explains that although global disaster is all but inevitable, our chances of long-term species survival are better than ever. Life on Earth has come close to annihilation—humans have, more than once, narrowly avoided extinction just during the last million years—but every single time a few creatures survived, evolving to adapt to the harshest of conditions. This brilliantly speculative work of popular science focuses on humanity’s long history of dodging the bullet, as well as on new threats that we may face in years to come. Most important, it explores how scientific breakthroughs today will help us avoid disasters tomorrow. From simulating tsunamis to studying central Turkey’s ancient underground cities; from cultivating cyanobacteria for “living cities” to designing space elevators to make space colonies cost-effective; from using math to stop pandemics to studying the remarkable survival strategies of gray whales, scientists and researchers the world over are discovering the keys to long-term resilience and learning how humans can choose life over death. Newitz’s remarkable and fascinating journey through the science of mass extinctions is a powerful argument about human ingenuity and our ability to change. In a world populated by doomsday preppers and media commentators obsessively forecasting our demise, 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. Amazon.com Review Review cite —Chris Schluep cite —Brian Clegg

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Bostrom, Nick, 22.1, 23.1, nts.1 n

bottlenecks, genetic, itr.1, 6.1

low genetic diversity linked to, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, nts.1 n

migration and

serial founder theory of, 6.1, 6.2

speciation events in, 6.1, 6.2

Toba megavolcano and, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3

Buikstra, Jane

building codes, 15.1, 15.2, 17.1

Butler, Octavia, 13.1, 19.1, 22.1, 23.1

Cabrol, Nathalie, 23.1, nts.1 n

California Institute of Technology

CAMP (Central Atlantic magmatic province)

Canada, 16.1, 18.1, 18.2, 19.1

Canfield, Donald

Cann, Rebecca

Canterbury Tales, The (Chaucer), 8.1, 8.2, 8.3

Caral, 14.1, 14.2

carbon cycle, 1.1, 19.1, 19.2

carbon emissions, 5.1, 9.1, 15.1, 19.1, 19.2, 21.1, nts.1 n

carbon nanotubes, 21.1, 21.2

carbon sequestration, 11.1, 18.1, 18.2, 19.1, 19.2

Carmody, John

Cascio, Jamais, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 19.4

Çatalhöyük, 14.1, 1.11, 14.2

cave dwellings, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4

cave paintings, 5.1, 6.1

CDC (Centers for Disease Control), 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 16.5

CD3WD database, nts.1 n

Center for Orbital and Reentry Debris Studies

Chaucer, Geoffrey, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, nts.1 n

Chicxulub crater

China, 11.1, 16.1, 16.2, 17.1, nts.1 n

Great Leap Forward of, 9.1, 9.2

chloroplasts, 11.1, 11.2

cholera, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3

Chu, Steven

CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)

Cincinnati, University of

circadian rhythms

cities, itr.1, itr.2, 8.1, 13.1, 14.1, 23.1

agricultural development and

ancient

disaster-resistant, see disaster science

earliest, 14.1, 14.2

economic success of

eco-technologies in, 14.1, 18.1

emergent property of

endurance of

energy used by

experimental ideas tolerated by

grassroots development of

green spaces in, 14.1, 14.2, 18.1

key components of

as living process, 14.1, 18.1

medieval

mounds created by

people socialized by, 14.1, 14.2

poverty in, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3

pre-Columbian American

proto-, 5.1

public health in, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 16.1

sidewalk life of

specialized skills required by

stochastic

storm-water runoff in, 18.1, 18.2

successful, 14.1, 14.2

traffic reduction in

see also farm cities; underground cities

civilizations, 8.1, 8.2, 13.1, 14.1, 20.1, 23.1

interplanetary

interstellar

pre-Columbian American

rebuilding of, nts.1 n

Clarke, Arthur C.

Claudius, Emperor of Rome

Climate Hazards Group

coal, clean

coal gap

Coburn, Brian

Cochran, Gregory

Columbian Exchange, The (Crosby),

concrete, 17.1, nts.1 n

self-healing, 18.1, 22.1, 22.2

Contagion, 16.1, 16.2

continental drift, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1

coral reefs, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 4.1

cores, drill

cosmic radiation, itr.1, itr.2, itr.3, itr.4, 2.1, 17.1

Country in the City, The (Walker),

Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) mass extinction, itr.1, 3.1, 4.1, 20.1, nts.1 n –70 n

flaming-ball-of-death controversy and

survivors of

crinoids

Crosby, Alfred

crurotarsans, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4

Cuba

cyanobacteria (blue-green algae), itr.1, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 5.1, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2

chloroplasts and, 11.1, 11.2

circadian rhythms of

in clean coal technology

famine’s lack of effect on

hydrogen-releasing, 11.1, 11.2

nitrogen fixation by

symbiotic relationships of, 11.1, 11.2

see also photosynthesis

cyborgs, 22.1, 22.2

cycadeoids

dating techniques

Dawkins, Richard, 6.1, 6.2

Death and Life of Great American Cities, The (Jacobs),

Deccan Plateau

DeLong, Brad

Denisovans, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2

Derinkuyu, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3

Despommier, Dickson

Devonian Period, itr.1, 2.1, 2.2

extinction of

DeWitte, Sharon

Diamond, Jared, 8.1, nts.1 n

Diaspora,

diaspora, human, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 10.1

see also Jews

diatoms

Dikötter, Frank

dimetrodon

dinosaurs

body postures of

evolution of, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3

extinction of, itr.1, 3.1, 4.1; see also Cretaceous-Tertiary (KT) mass extinction

feathers of

therapod, 4.1, 4.2

as Triassic survivors

disaster science, 14.1, 15.1, 23.1

building codes and, 15.1, 15.2, 17.1

cost of, 15.1, 15.2

death tolls and, 15.1, 15.2

earthquakes in, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4

explosions in

flooding in, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 15.5

landslides in, 15.1, 15.2

prediction in

rescue innovation in

tsunamis in, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3

DNA, 1.1, 2.1, nts.1 n, nts.2 n

Jewish

mitochondrial

mutated, 6.1, 16.1, 22.1

Neanderthal, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7

sequencing of, 6.1, 8.1

symbolic thought and

in synthetic biology

dolphins

Driscoll, Simon, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3

droughts, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 19.1, nts.1 n

prediction of

dust-bowl famines, 9.1, 9.2

Eaarth (McKibben),

earthquakes, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 17.1

ecosystems, itr.1, 1.1, 2.1, 4.1, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3, 18.4, 19.1, nts.1 n

food webs of, 3.1, 3.2

homogeneous

Permian

vulnerable, famines and, 9.1, 9.2

Edwards, Bradley, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3, nts.1 n

Edward III, King of England

endosymbiotic theory

Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center

energy, 14.1, 17.1, 18.1

future sources of

solar, 11.1, 14.1, 14.2, 18.1, 18.2, 19.1

sustainable, 14.1, 19.1, 19.2, 21.1, 21.2

England, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 18.1

blacks in

Dover cliffs of

feudalism in, 8.1, 8.2

Peasants’ Revolt in, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6, 9.1

see also Black Death; Oxford Martin School

enhanced weathering

entitlements, theory of, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4

environmentalist movement, 12.1, 14.1, nts.1 n

environmental-protection laws

epidemic modeling

air travel spread in, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3

of cholera, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3

health surveillance in, 16.1, 16.2

ideal response in

patterns of infection in, 16.1, 16.2

rural vs. urban areas in, 16.1, 16.2

vaccinating children in, 16.1, 16.2

see also pandemics

eukaryotes

Europe, 1.1, 23.1

evolution, 11.1, nts.1 n –79 n

of dinosaurs, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3

of feathers, 4.1, 6.1

of gray whales

natural selection in, 22.1, nts.1 n

Permian

evolution, human, itr.1, 2.1, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1

adaptations in, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1

bipedalism in, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4

brain size in, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 7.1, 22.1

hominins in, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, nts.1 n –72 n

language in, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1

leg length in

ongoing, 22.1, 22.2, nts.1 n –92 n

sexual selection in, 6.1, 6.2, 22.1, nts.1 n

symbolic communication in, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1

walking in, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3

evolution, human, future, 4.1, 13.1, 22.1

machine superintelligence and

and radiation bombardment in space, 22.1, 22.2

synthetic biology in

uploaded brains in, 22.1, 23.1, 23.2

Exodus, book of, 10.1, 10.2, nts.1 n

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