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The Forum: Resilience: A Survivor's Guide to Adversity

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Cayman crocodiles from San Marcos, Sucre, Northern Colombia (photo by Getty Images)

04/06/2016 GMT

Resilience: A Survivor's Guide to Adversity

BBC World Service - The Forum, Resilience: A Survivor's Guide to Adversity

Why some people and animals adapt to hardship

Janina Ramirez and guests discuss resilience during mass extinctions of the distant past, in China’s recent history and when faced with upcoming climate change.

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)

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