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A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us about the Destiny of the Human Species Audiobook
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A leading ecologist argues that if humankind is to survive on a fragile planet, we must understand and obey its iron laws.
Our species has amassed unprecedented knowledge of nature, which we have tried to use to seize control of life and bend the planet to our will. In A Natural History of the Future, biologist Rob Dunn argues that such efforts are futile. We may see ourselves as life’s overlords, but we are instead at its mercy. In the evolution of antibiotic resistance, the power of natural selection to create biodiversity, and even the surprising life of the London Underground, Dunn finds laws of life that no human activity can annul. When we create artificial islands of crops, dump toxic waste, or build communities, we provide new materials for old laws to shape. Life’s future flourishing is not in question. Ours is.
As ambitious as Edward Wilson’s Sociobiology and as timely as Elizabeth Kolbert’s The Sixth Extinction, A Natural History of the Future sets a new standard for understanding the diversity and destiny of life itself.
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“Packed full of insight from the latest scientific discoveries about the wonders and troubles of the living Earth.”
— David George Haskell, author of The Forest Unseen
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“A guide to this complex problem and offers palatable solutions…a clear and important read.”
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“Make[s] glaringly clear that we are not in command of what we have set in motion.”
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“Dunn’s absorbing analysis advocates making the most of the few certainties we have.”
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“A timely, thought-provoking analysis, delivered in the affable prose that has become Dunn’s hallmark.”
— Thor Hanson, author of Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid
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A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice of the Week
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About Rob Dunn
Rob Dunn, the author of seven book, is a professor in the Department of Applied Ecology at North Carolina State University and in the Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics at the University of Copenhagen.