📗 Libro en inglés A NATURAL HISTORY OF THE FUTURE

Over the past century our species has made unprecedented technological innovations with which we have sought to control nature 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 A Natural History of the Future sets a new standard for understanding the diversity and destiny of life itself