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• Title:The sixth extinction : an unnatural history / Elizabeth Kolbert.
  
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• Author/Creator:Kolbert, Elizabeth, author.
  
• Published/Created:New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2014.
  ©2014
  

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  • Call Number: QE721.2.E97 K65 2014
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Mass extinctions.
  Extinction (Biology)
  Environmental disasters.
  Nature--Effect of human beings on.
  Human ecology.
  
• Medical Subjects: Extinction, Biological
  Disasters
  Ecological and Environmental Phenomena
  
• Edition:First edition.
  
• Description:319 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
  
• Summary:Over the last half billion years, there have been five major mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on Earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. This time around the cataclysm is us. In this book the author tells us why and how human beings have altered life on the planet in a way no species has before. She provides a moving account of the disappearances of various species occurring all around us and traces the evolution of extinction as concept, from its first articulation by Georges Cuvier in revolutionary Paris up to Lyell and Darwin, and through the present day. The sixth extinction is likely to be mankind's most lasting legacy, compelling us to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-304) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780805092998 hardback
  0805092994 hardback
  9780805093117 electronic book
  0805093117 electronic book
  9780805093117 electronic book
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: I. Sixth Extinction
  II. Mastodon's Molars
  III. Original Penguin
  IV. Luck of the Ammonites
  V. Welcome to the Anthropocene
  VI. Sea Around Us
  VII. Dropping Acid
  VIII. Forest and the Trees
  IX. Islands on Dry Land
  X. New Pangaea
  XI. Rhino Gets an Ultrasound
  XII. Madness Gene
  XIII. Thing with Feathers.