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Emigrating Beyond Earth: Human Adaptation and Space Colonization (Popular Science) 2012th Edition

by Cameron M M. Smith (Author), Evan T. Davies (Author)
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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 dimensions of space colonization, from genetics to cultural change. In this approach, space colonization is shown to be a natural continuation of the human species' 4 million-year legacy of adaptation to difficult new environments. The authors describe what can be learned from the evolutionary process to make space colonization more likely to succeed, and present examples from the history of human expansion into new environments -- including the astounding case of the prehistoric settlement of the upper colonization of the Pacific islands around 3,000 years ago -- to show that space colonization will be no more about rockets and robots that Pacific colonization was about sailing, but, instead, a natural and worthwhile continuation of human adaptation over time.
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    June 12, 2012
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    Popular Science
  6. Language
    English
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    6.61 x 0.72 x 9.45 inches
  8. Print length
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“This book would be a good introduction to the idea of space colonization for those who otherwise might consider it as an utopian idea while reading about the technologies necessary for transporting hundreds of people to distant locations in the Solar System and possibly terraforming a planet. ‘Emigrating Beyond Earth’ shows it all more in a way that’s easily understandable and logical without too much previous knowledge.” (Kadri Tinn, Astromadness.com, September, 2014)

“A basic premise of this work is that ‘human migration into space will be the continuation of the natural process of evolution.’ … the authors examine the pros and cons of colonization and conclude that it both can and should be attempted. To support their case, they note some potential catastrophes that could lead to the extinction of humans, and believe that space colonization may be necessary for the survival of the human species. … Summing Up: Recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates and general readers.” (T. Barker, Choice, Vol. 50 (6), February, 2013)

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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 endeavor, but a natural continuation of human evolution; a journey not just for the engineer and rocket scientist, but for everyman. Based on the most current understanding of our universe, human adaptation and evolution, the authors explain why space colonization must be planned as an adaptation to, rather than the conquest of, space.

Emigrating Beyond Earth argues that space colonization is an insurance policy for our species, and that it isn't about rockets and robots, it's about humans doing what we've been doing for four million years: finding new places and new ways to live.

Applying a unique anthropological approach, the authors outline a framework for continued human space exploration and offer a glimpse of a possible human future involving interstellar travel and settlement of worlds beyond our own.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1461411645
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Springer; 2012th edition (June 12, 2012)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 313 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781461411642
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1461411642
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.12 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.61 x 0.72 x 9.45 inches
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    Educated in Africa, England, the USA and Canada, Dr. Cameron M. Smith teaches archaeology and human evolution at Portland State University and Linfield College. He has published in peer-reviewed research journals, written features for magazines including 'Scientific American', 'Scientific American MIND', 'OMNI', 'Cultural Survival' and 'Archaeology', and written several books. His award-winning travel writing has appeared in both magazines and anthologies. Away from his office, Cameron is an active SCUBA diver and paraglider pilot whose many expeditions have taken him from Africa to the Arctic. His most recent book is 'Emigrating Beyond Earth: Human Adaptation and Space Colonization' (Springer 2012). He is currently writing and illustrating an atlas of human prehistory (Fall 2014) and a technical foundation on the cultural and genetic issues involved in human space colonization (Fall 2016). You can find out more at his academic page: http://pdx.academia.edu/CameronMSmith.

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Lowell
5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating view of Space Colonization through the Lens of Anthropology
Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2017
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This is a fantastic introduction to biological and cultural anthropology applied to space colonization. The scope of the book has two parts: 1) to illustrate the same evolutionary processes that created modern humans would continue as we move to the other planets and moons of the solar system; and 2) new cultures will form in the extraterrestrial colonies similar to how numerous cultures have formed throughout history in response to social and environmental pressures.

The authors present the argument that humans will evolve in response to space and planetary environments mitigated by homo sapiens' technological advances. They illustrate how homo sapiens evolved from earlier homonids and survived because of biological adaptions in response to the environment. As human colonies are established, and as distance and time makes interaction with earth and other colonies less frequent, humans will continue to evolve in response to their environs, and speciate. Also, humans will adapt and learn to navigate the solar system in ways similar to how we colonized earth. As humans trekked out of Africa and settled Asia, Europe, Australia, the Pacific, and the Americas, they developed unique cultures comprising practices and technological innovations to help them survive. Humans will develop and pass adaptive practices and knowledge as new culture to succeeding generations in a similar manner as our ancestors learned weather patterns, movements of celestial bodies, animal migrations, sea currents, etc., that helped them to migrate throughout the continents and navigate the oceans.

I would to love to read a follow-up book by the authors using the same exhaustive literature review and science (as they did in this book), to speculate what new knowledge and technologies would develop to adapt to interplanetary travel and settlement; to speculate how humans would evolve in low gravity, different atmospheres, radiation, etc., and how those biological changes could manifest in human populations.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Emigrating Beyond Earth: Human Adaptation and Space Colonization
Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2014
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Well .. this is what all space researchers and enterpalnatory observors should read and understand before taking any decision or any step further to the space.
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T. Carlsson
2.0 out of 5 stars Not much food for thought
Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2016
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I liked the premise of this book. Approaching space colonization through anthropology and evolutionary history (rather than pure technology) seemed like an interesting and original endeavor. But I was disappointed by how little the authors actually make of it. The first 200 pages focus on evolution and anthropology with little reference or relevance to space travel. Anyone with a little bit of familiarity with these subjects will have read the same things before. The last 60 pages of the book finally get closer to space colonization, but the arguments remain vapid. The authors don't manage to make any good use of the preceding evolutionary presentation. All they have to say is that humanity should colonize space to ensure the long-term survival of the human species, because species tend to become extinct sooner or later. And we should begin colonization as soon as possible because civilization sometimes disintegrates.

These simple conclusions are an insufficient yield from a book of this length. My expectation was that this book would offer anthropologically or biologically informed speculation about how social relations and human life might develop in space colonies, but the authors don't seem to have enough imagination to take their analysis beyond the self-evident arguments. Perhaps evolutionary biology and anthropology really can provide valuable insights for space travel plans, but if so, the authors of this book failed to identify them.
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Tricia
4.0 out of 5 stars This book has a strong anthropology focus.
Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2013
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This book approaches the thoughts of space travel in terms of anthropology. It begins the discussion with single celled organisms and goes right up the evolutionary chain from fish to modern man, chapter by chapter. The last section of the book deals with space travel, discussing the adaptations that will be needed to succeed, and the points for and against future space endeavors. The cover art is a bit sensational.
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Guy P. Harrison
5.0 out of 5 stars Fresh take on an important topic
Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2020
Excellent book! Thorough and well written. Smith presents a fascinating and often neglected perspective on our future in space. If we’re going to expand our species beyond the Earth, we must think long and hard about what it will mean to be a human in space. Highly recommended.
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Tina
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic read
Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2013
Futurist anthropologists Cameron Smith and Evan Davies take us on a voyage through our entire existence. Armed with a full arsenal of biology, physics, chemistry, mathematics, technology, history and philosophy - they go all out demonstrating beyond doubt that "Emigrating Beyond Earth" is not a choice but a necessity.

In earth exploration the trend is moving away from the elite in favor of the every man. This is true also for space. Smith and Davies put this development in intriguing context. We get to see the future in a new light, derived from the study of evolutionary adaption. The book lays out the case for human space emigration in convincing detail informed by billions of years of evolution. What is life exactly? How did it get here? What has worked out and what has failed? How can we survive?

Writers making science accessible and interesting for the layman are rare finds. Emigrating Beyond Earth manages the task without thinning the subject. Cameron Smith was covered at Explorersweb for innovative design in polar travel and recently by Wired magazine for building his own space suit. Scientist by education, engineer by practice and explorer at heart he belongs to a new generation ready to take destiny into their own hands.

Right up there with Ray Kurzweil's "The Singularity Is Near" and alongside useful accounts in the genre such as latest "Makers" by Chris Anderson - the visionary "Emigrating Beyond Earth" is one of the greatest books I've read.
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Baptiste SALMON
3.0 out of 5 stars Original
Reviewed in France on November 2, 2014
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Well, this book is clearly a good anthropological analysis on space colonisation. However, it may sometimes be a bit confusing ; it is not always easy to make a clear link between the anthropological demonstration and space colonisation.
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