This relentless extinction, Ashley Dawson contends in a primer that combines vast scope with elegant precision, is the product of a global attack on the commons, the great trove of air, water, plants and creatures, as well as collectively ...
In this young readers adaptation of the New York Times-bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning The Sixth Extinction, Elizabeth Kolbert tells us why and how human beings have altered life on the planet in a way no species has before.
Through these stories, Kolbert provides a moving account of the disappearances occurring all around us and traces the evolution of extinction as concept, from its first articulation by Georges Cuvier in revolutionary Paris up through the ...
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Discusses the causes and mechanisms of extinction, drawing on the fields of paleontology and statistics to chronicle the histories of extinct species
Above the Big Hollow is Hogan's. Then there's the tillage field, the old milking shed, and beyond the tillage field is Flanagan's. JackBrian's field is all covered in whitethorns andholly and blackthorns. It'salso called theFairy Field, ...
Evolution and Extinction Rate Controls. Amsterdam: Elsevier. . 1983. Does evolution take place in an ecological vacuum? II. /. Paleontology 57: 1-30. Boyajian, G. E. 1986. Phanerozoic trends in background extinction: Consequences of an ...
In prose that is at once frank, entertaining, and deeply informed, "New Yorker" writer Elizabeth Kolbert tells us why and how human beings have altered life on the planet in a way no species has before.
... Whiteside HOBBES Richard Tuck HOLLYWOOD Peter Decherney THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE Joachim Whaley HOME Michael Allen Fox HOMER Barbara Graziosi HORMONES Martin Luck HUMAN ANATOMY Leslie Klenerman HUMAN EVOLUTION Bernard Wood HUMAN RIGHTS ...
Writing from the front lines of extinction research, Barnosky tells the overarching story of geologic and evolutionary history and how it informs the way humans inhabit, exploit, and impact Earth today.