About the Book: Life Changing : How Humans are Altering Life on Earth
For the last three billion years or so, life on Earth has been shaped by
natural forces. Evolution happens slowly, with species crafted by natural
selection across millennia. Then, a few hundred thousand years ago, along came a
bolshie, big-brained, bipedal primate we now call 'Homo sapiens, and with that
the Earths natural history came to an abrupt end....
We are now living through the post-natural phase, where the fate of all living
things is irrevocably intertwined with our own. We domesticated animals to suit
our needs, and altered their DNA wolves became