Scatter, adapt, remember: Annalee Newitz on surviving mass extinctions

Today we worry that cow farts are destroying the environment with methane; back in the Proterozoic, it’s certain that algae farts ruined it with oxygen.As an evolutionary biologist and conservationist I am accustomed to telling my students that humans are responsible for the sixth mass...adapt, Annalee, extinctions, Newitz, remember, Scatter, surviving