Dying Planet: The Extinction of Species

ISBN-10: 0830667261
ISBN-13: 9780830667260
Series: Dying Planet
Pages: 188
Language: English
Published: 1991
Publisher: Tab Books
Author: Jon Erickson

Description

Is life on earth facing a new period of mass extinction like those that have destroyed billions of species in the past? In Dying Planet, science writer Jon Erickson tells the story of history's great episodes of plant and animal extinction and speculates on how modern man's continued destruction of large ecosystems around the globe could have a similar impact on life in the centuries to come.