February 2, 2007

'A Plague of People'

Our species is altering the environment for everything living on the Earth. Three recent books examine the dismal future that we have created for ourselves, our descendants, and the rest of the biosphere.

Stephen M. Meyer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: For the past several billion years evolution on Earth has been driven by small-scale incremental forces, such as sexual selection, punctuated by cosmic-scale disruptions — plate tectonics, planetary geochemistry,

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