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We are surrounded by stories of people on the move. Wild species, too, are escaping warming seas and desiccated lands in a mass exodus. Politicians and the media present this upheaval of migration patterns as unprecedented, blaming it for the spread of disease and conflict, and spreading anxiety across the world as a result.But the science and history of migration in animals, plants, and humans tell a different story. Far from being a disruptive behaviour, migration is an ancient and lifesaving response to environmental change, a biological imperative as necessary as breathing. Climate changes triggered the first human migrations out of Africa. Falling sea levels allowed our passage across the Bering Sea.

ISBN-13: 9781635577860

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Bloomsbury USA

Publication Date: 10-05-2021

Pages: 400

Product Dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.10(d)

Sonia Shah is a science journalist and the prize-winning author of Pandemic: Tracking Contagions from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the New York Public Library Award for Excellence in Journalism. She has written for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and many others. Her TED talk, “Three Reasons We Still Haven’t Gotten Rid of Malaria,” has been viewed by more than one million people around the world. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

Table of Contents

1 Exodus 1

2 Panic 32

3 Linnaeus's Loathsome Harlotry 63

4 The Deadly Hybrid 94

5 The Suicidal Zombie Migrant 128

6 Malthus's Hideous Blasphemy 154

7 Homo migratio 189

8 The Wild Alien 219

9 The Migrant Formula 252

10 The Wall 284

Coda: Safe Passage 310

Acknowledgments 319

References 322

Notes 330

Index 374