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Humans Are Doomed to Go Extinct
Habitat degradation, low genetic variation and declining fertility are setting Homo sapiens up for collapse
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Henry Gee is a paleontologist, evolutionary biologist and editor at Nature. His latest book is A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth (St. Martin’s Press, 2021).
The SciencesDecember 30, 2013
Science Fiction Excerpt: Vladimir and the Noosphere
We hope you enjoy this introduction from Nature's award-winning "Futures" science-fiction series, now an eBook, "Nostalgia for the Future (Revisited), a story of Vladimir's choice, year unknown"
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Tricky, Turbulent, Tribal
Friend or foe is a mutable designation
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Existential Terroir in Northern California
140 million years of geologic history in a bottle of wine