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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 : Picador, Henry Holt and Company, 2015.
  ©2014
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY Great ReadsWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: QE721.2.E97 K65 2015
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:c.1 On loan - Due on 05-10-2024
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Mass extinctions.
  Extinction (Biology)
  Environmental disasters.
  
• Medical Subjects: Extinction, Biological
  
• Edition:First Picador edition.
  
• Description:319 pages : illustrations ; 21 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:First published: 2014.
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781250062185 pbk.
  1250062187 pbk.
  
• 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.