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Title The sixth extinction : an unnatural history / Elizabeth Kolbert.
Author Kolbert, Elizabeth, author.
Publisher New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2014.
Copyright ©2014
Description [xi], 319 pages : illustrations, photographs ; 25 cm
Edition First edition.
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 LW-Hillside  576.84 KOL Nearby on shelf  30641004984832 01-30-24  AVAILABLE
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BIBLIOGRAPHY Includes bibliographical references (pages [277]-304) and index.
Contents The sixth extinction -- The mastodon's molars -- The original penguin -- The luck of the ammonites -- Welcome to the Anthropocene -- The sea around us -- Dropping acid -- The forest and the trees -- Islands on dry land -- The new Pangaea -- The rhino gets an ultrasound -- The madness gene -- The thing with feathers.
Summary Drawing on the work of geologists, botanists, marine biologists and other researchers, an award-winning writer for The New Yorker discusses the five devastating mass extinctions on earth and predicts the coming of a sixth.
Subject Mass extinctions.
Extinction (Biology)
Environmental disasters.
Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
Human ecology.
Other title 6th extinction.
Unnatural history.
ISBN 9780805092998
9781250062185
0805092994
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