[housebear]

Check out A Canticle for Leibowitz for an entertaining (and often depressing) read on life restarting after an extinction event. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz

"Set in a Catholic monastery in the desert of the southwestern United States after a devastating nuclear war, the book spans thousands of years as civilization rebuilds itself. The monks of the Albertian Order of Leibowitz preserve the surviving remnants of man's scientific knowledge until the world is again ready for it."

[rootusrootus]

And then of course after mankind recovers and rebuilds to the same technological level, they start another nuclear war. Figures.

[pixl97]

Time does not repeat, but it does rhyme in a phrase that ends in global thermonuclear war.