Survival: Evolutionary Rules for Intelligent Species Survival
Written by Samuel Layne and Sherry Wang, Illustrator
Narrated by Nathaniel Ascher
()
About this audiobook
FINALIST: (1) 2020 (14TH) ANNUAL NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARDS; (2) 2021 NEXT GENERATION INDIE BOOK AWARDS
How different might the history of our species have been had our hunter-gatherer forebears failed to migrate out of Africa in time to survive 70,000 years ago when threatened by extinction due to climate change brought on by the last ice age? Simply put, we would not exist. Now, similarly threatened, we too must act quickly if we hope to survive. Yet despite all the signs of a potential greenhouse mass extinction, again due to climate change, this threat is still being ignored.
Like the passengers aboard the Titanic, who knew that in two hours and forty minutes they would either be in a lifeboat or drowning in the cold waters of the Atlantic but waited a full hour before taking action-we too are not getting our lifeboats ready.
This book is a wake-up call and looks to evolution itself for guidance on how to avoid extinction.
Evolution, the author claims, seems firmly on the side of survival and has left Evolutionary Survival Patterns-Adapt, Innovate, Mature, and Migrate to Survive or go Extinct. Survival depends on how we adapt and innovate as well as on whether we can mature and migrate. Unfortunately, misuse of the Adapt and Innovate patterns over the last two hundred years has driven us to the brink of self-extinction. What can be done?
Survival, this book claims, will not emerge from the products of adapting and innovating-science, technologies, and inventions-but by migrating and maturing to evolutionary maturity-maturing beyond the ability to drive ourselves and other species to extinction-and by restoring Earth's habitats, species and a return to sustaining our lives from within Earth's ecosystems, as our forebears did. And failing these, like them, we must be free, willing, and able to choose to migrate-to other planets if necessary-to survive.
Related to Survival
Titles in the series (1)
Survival: Evolutionary Rules for Intelligent Species Survival Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related audiobooks
Extinction and the Human: Four American Encounters Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDown to the Wire: Confronting Climate Collapse Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Survival Guide: Learn to Find Food, Defend Yourself, Apply First Aid, and Survive Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5SAS Survival Guide: The Ultimate Guide to Surviving Anywhere Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Survival Guide: The Ultimate Preppers’ Manual for Disasters, Emergency Preparedness, and Survivalism Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Survival Guide: First Aid and Other Skills for Preppers Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Survive: Essential Skills and Tactics To Get You Out of Anywhere--Alive Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Survival: Tips, Tactics, and Tricks to Stay Alive Longer Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Survival Skills: Learn How to Focus Better and How to Survive Longer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Prepper's Water Survival Guide: Harvest, Treat, and Store Your Most Vital Resource Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Survival Guide: For Beginners, Intermediates, and Preppers Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Survival Training: Killer Tips for Toughness and Secret Smart Survival Skills Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Advanced Bushcraft: An Expert Field Guide to the Art of Wilderness Survival Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Survival Skills Express Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Bushcraft: How To Heal Oneself in the Wilderness Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMother Nature is Not Trying to Kill You: A Wildlife & Bushcraft Survival Guide Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5SAS Survival Guide – Health: The Ultimate Guide to Surviving Anywhere Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bushcraft: How To Eat in the Wilderness Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ultimate Suburban Survivalist Guide: The Smartest Money Moves to Prepare for Any Crisis Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Survival Guide: Filter and Find Water, Survive, and Prepare Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Bunker: What It Takes to Survive the Apocalypse Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Evasive Wilderness Survival Techniques: How to Survive in the Wild While Evading Your Captors Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Bushcraft 101: A Field Guide to the Art of Wilderness Survival Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Surviving the Wild: Essential Bushcraft and First Aid Skills for Surviving the Great Outdoors Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Environmental Science For You
Shelter: A Love Letter to Trees Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Animal, Vegetable, Miracle Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Uncertain Sea: Fear is everywhere. Embrace it. Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Way of Imagination Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Sixth Extinction Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5In Winter's Kitchen: Growing Roots and Breaking Bread in the Northern Heartland Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Underland: A Deep Time Journey Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The End of the River Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-made Landscape Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The World Without Us Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Silent Spring Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related categories
Reviews for Survival
0 ratings0 reviews