In this post-natural history guide, Helen Pilcher invites us to meet key species that have been sculpted by humanity
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Wolf that Rolled Over
Chapter 2: Strategic Moos and Golden Gnus
Chapter 3: Super Salmon and Spider-Goats
Chapter 4: Game of Clones
Chapter 5: Screwworms and Suicide Possums
Chapter 6: The Age of the Chicken
Chapter 7: Sea-Monkeys and Pizzly Bears
Chapter 8: Darwin’s Moth
Chapter 9: Resilient Reefs
Chapter 10: Love Island
Chapter 11: Pigs and Purple Emperors
Chapter 12: The New Ark
Additional Reading
Acknowledgements
Index
Helen Pilcher is a science writer and comedian, with a PhD in stem
cell biology and years of stand-up comedy under her belt. Helen has
worked as a freelance writer for the last 12 years, and she has
written for the Guardian, New Scientist, BBC online, BBC Wildlife
and Nature, for which she was formerly a reporter.
Helen's previous book for Bloomsbury Sigma, Bring Back the King,
was Radio 2 ‘Fact not Fiction’ book of the week; it was described
by comedian Sara Pascoe as ‘science at its funniest’.
@HelenPilcher1
Tackles how humans are altering existing animal life. It has some
good lines and is richly entertaining throughout, but under the
surface it is pretty serious.'
*Sunday Times*
Helen Pilcher takes on the unenviable task of describing how our
species has been on a collision course, spanning roughly 300,000
years of history, with the rest of life on earth. It shouldn't make
for good reading but, mercifully, Pilcher is both very funny and
very, very clever.
*Gillian Burke, biologist and TV presenter*
With warm wit and glorious pace, Life Changing delivers an eloquent
commentary on this, the age of post-natural history. Expertly
pulling together and detailing the work of hundreds of scientists
around the world, Pilcher encourages us to ask timely questions
about our role as stewards and curators of a planet struggling
under our influence.
*Jules Howard, naturalist, science writer and author of Sex on
Earth*
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