Resilience: A Survivor's Guide to Adversity
Why some people and animals adapt to hardship
The Forum · BBC World Service
June 6, 201640m 8s
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Show Notes
These days everyone from schoolchildren to business owners is being told to become more resilient, but what does resilience mean in geological time? How and why do some organisms survive mass extinctions? And, on a shorter time-scale, how do people cope with the demands of dictators? Janina Ramirez and her guests discuss how to survive adversity across time and space.
(Photo: Caiman crocodiles in San Marcos, Sucre in Colombia. Credit: Getty Images)