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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
Introduction: Are We All Going to Die?
Part I. A History of Mass Extinctions
1. The Apocalypse that Brought Us to Life
2. Two Ways to go Extinct
3. The Great Dying
4. What Really Happened to the Dinosaurs
5. Is a Mass Extinction Going on Right Now?
Part II. We Almost Didn’t Make It
6. The African Bottleneck
7. Meeting the Neanderthals
8. Great Plagues
9. The Hungry Generations
Part III. Lessons From Survivors
10. Scatter: Footprints of the Diaspora
11. Adapt: Meet the Toughest Microbes in the World
12. Remember: Swim South
13. Pragmatic Optimism, or Stories of Survival
Part IV. How to Build a Death-Proof City
14. The Mutating Metropolis
15. Disaster Science
16. Using Math to Stop a Pandemic
17. Cities that Hide
18. Every Surface a Farm
Part V. The Million-Year View
19. Terraforming Earth
20. Not in Our Planetary Backyard
21. Take a Ride on the Space Elevator
22. Your Body is Optional
23. On Titan’s Beach
Acknowledgments
Notes
Illustration Credits
Index
About the Author
Other Books by This Author
Large Map Images
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