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A NATURAL HISTORY OF THE FUTURE - ROB DUNN KART...

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.

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