Emigrating Beyond Earth: Human Adaptation and Space Colonization

by Evan T. Davies and Cameron M. Smith

Emigrating Beyond Earth puts space colonization into the context of human evolution. Rather than focusing on the technologies and strategies needed to colonize space, the authors examine the human and societal reasons for space colonization. They make space colonization seems like a natural step by demonstrating that if will continue the human species' 4 million-year-old legacy of adaptation to difficult new environments. The authors present many...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1461411645
• ISBN13: 9781461411642
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.7" x 9.6"