Emigrating Beyond Earth Human Adaptation and Space Colonization /
For four million years humankind has been actively expanding geographically and in doing so has adapted to a wide variety of hostile environments. Now we are looking towards the ultimate adaptation - the colonization of space. Emigrating Beyond Earth illustrates that this is not a technocratic endea...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York : Imprint: Springer,
2012.
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1165-9 Перейти в каталог НБ ТГУ |
Table of Contents:
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgements and Dedications
- About the Authors
- Preface
- Part I: The Context and Uniqueness of Human Evolution and Adaptation
- Chapter 1: The Extraterrestrial Adaptation: Humanity, Evolution and Migration Into Space
- Chapter 2: Stardust: The Origins of Life, Evolution and Adaptation
- Chapter 3: The Adaptive Equipment of the Genus Homo: Symbolism and Niche Construction
- Part II: Arguments For and Against Human Space Colonization
- Chapter 4: A Choice of Catastrophes - Common Arguments for Space Colonization
- Chapter 5: False Choices - Common Objections to Human Space Colonization
- Part III: Human Adaptation to Space - Lessons from the Past and Shaping the Future
- Chapter 6: Starpaths - Adaptation to Oceania
- Chapter 7: Building an Adaptive Framework for Human Future in Space
- Bibliography
- Index.