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ShareEveryone wonders what tomorrow holds, but what will the real future look like? Not decades or even hundreds of years from now, but thousands or millions of years into the future.
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- End of civilization
- Extinction event
- Consensus of scientists regarding global warming
- Geomagnetic reversal
Will our species change radically? Or will we become builders of the next dominant intelligence on Earth- the machine?These and other seemingly fantastic scenarios are the very possible realities explored in Peter Ward's Future Evolution, a penetrating look at what might come next in the history of the planet.
Looking to the past for clues about the future, Ward describes how the main catalyst for evolutionary change has historically been mass extinction.
While many scientist direly predict that humanity will eventually create such a situation, Ward argues that one is already well underway--the extinction of large mammals--and that a new Age of Humanity is coming that will radically revise the diversity of life on Earth.
Finally, Ward examines the question of human extinction and reaches the startling conclusion that the likeliest scenario is not our imminent demise but long term survival--perhaps reaching as far as the death of the Sun!Full of Alexis Rockman's breathtaking color images of what animals, plants and other organisms might look like thousands and millions of years from now, Future Evolution takes readers on an incredible journey through time from the deep past into the far future..
For more information about the title Future Evolution, read the full description at Amazon.com, or see the following related books:
Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future — University of Washington paleontologist Peter D. Ward demonstrates in UNDER A GREEN SKY that the ancient past is not just of academic concern. ... > read more
Rivers in Time — -- BioscienceSeveral times in the distant past, catastrophic extinctions have swept the Earth, causing more than half of all species -- from ... > read more
Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds, And Earth's Ancient Atmosphere — For 65 million years dinosaurs ruled the Earth - until a deadly asteroid forced their extinction. But what accounts for the incredible longevity of ... > read more
Catastrophes and Lesser Calamities: The Causes of Mass Extinctions — This is a book about the dramatic periods in the Earth's history called mass extinctions - short periods (by geological standards) when life nearly ... > read moreRecommend this page on Facebook, Twitter,
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