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While examining the history of our world and actively checking out our present environment, technology journalist Michael Tennesen identifies what life on the planet could look like following the next mass extinction. A growing number of scientists agree our company is going toward a mass extinction, perhaps in less than 300 years. There have already been five in the last 600 million years, like the Cretaceous extinction, during which an asteroid knocked out the dinosaurs. Though these incidents were initially damaging, they were also primary movers of evolutionary change in characteristics. And we can easily see a few of the warning signs of another extinction event coming as our oceans lose both fish and air. In The Next Varieties, Michael Tennesen questions what life might be like after it happens. Tennesen discusses the future of characteristics and whether humans can make it through the bottleneck of extinction. Without man, could the seas regenerate, returning to what they were before fishing vessels? Could life out of the blue get very big, as it do before the appearance of humans? And what if man survives the coming catastrophes however in reduced populations? Would those groupings be isolated enough to become distinct kinds? Could the conquest of Mars lead to some other form of individual? Could we publish our minds into a computer and reside in a virtual certainty? Or could hereditary engineering create a far more sensible and long-lived creature that might shun ordinary people? And exactly how would we discover the next humans? Are they with us now? Tennesen delves into the history of the planet and trips to weather forests, canyons, craters, and caves all over the world to explore the potential winners and losers of the next era of advancement. His predictions, based on reports and interviews with top scientists, have essential implications forever on the planet today.
