Scatter, adapt, and remember: how humans will survive a mass extinction

Are we all going to die?

A History of Mass Extinctions. The apocalypse that brought us to life ; Two ways to go extinct ; The Great dying ; What really happened to the dinosaurs ; Is a mass extinction going on right now?

We Almost Didn't Make It. The African bottleneck ; Meeting the Neanderthals ; Great plagues ; The hungry generations.

Lessons From Survivors. Scatter : footprints of the diaspora ; Adapt: meet the toughest microbes in the world ; Remember: swim south ; Pragmatic optimism, or, stories of survival.

How to Build a Death-Proof City. The mutating metropolis ; Disaster science ; Using math to stop a pandemic ; Cities that hide ; Every surface a farm.

The Million-Year View. Terraforming Earth ; Not in our planetary backyard ; Take a ride on the space elevator ; Your body is optional ; On Titan's beach.