How to Survive a Mass Extinction
17:22 minutes
In her new book Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction, writer Annalee Newitz looks back at Earth’s previous mass extinctions to see what lessons might be learned, and how earthlings might prepare themselves to survive a future planet-wide catastrophe.
Segment Guests
Annalee Newitz
Annalee Newitz is a science journalist and author based in San Francisco, California. They are author of Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind, Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age andThe Future of Another Timeline, and co-host of the podcast Our Opinions Are Correct.
Heard on the Air
Read an excerpt from Scatter, Adapt, and Remember.
Meet the Producer
About Annette Heist
Annette Heist is a former senior producer for Science Friday.