There was a time when animals could treat humans as occasional threats - encountered, assessed, and forgotten. That time has passed. In When We Became Inevitable, this book explores the quiet biological shift that followed human expansion: the moment when animals could no longer ignore us. As landscapes changed and unpredictability grew, learning stopped being enough. Instinct itself began to adapt. Moving through avoidance, engagement, marginal life, and inherited response, this work traces how human presence has been written into nervous systems across species. It is not an argument about guilt or harmony, but an act of attention - a clear-eyed examination of what it means to become a permanent condition of life on Earth.
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