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Richard Leakey One Of The WorldsnbspnbspForemost Experts On Mans Evolutionary Past Now TurnsnbspnbspHis Eye To The Future And Doesnt Like What HenbspnbspSees To the philosophical thenbspnbspearth is eternal while the human race presumptivenbspnbspkeeper of the worlds history is a mere specknbspnbspin the rich stream of life It is known thatnbspnbspnothing upon Earth is forever geography climate andnbspnbspplant and animal life are all subject to radicalnbspnbspchange On five occasions in the past catastrophicnbspnbspnatural events have caused mass extinctions onnbspnbspEarth But today humans stand alone in dubiousnbspnbspdistinction among Earths species HomonbspnbspSapiens possesses the ability to destroynbspnbspentire species at will to trigger the sixthnbspnbspextinction in the history of life In The SixthnbspnbspExtinction Richard Leakey and Roger Lewinnbspnbspconsider how the grand sprawl of human life isnbspnbspinexorably wreaking havoc around the world Thenbspnbspauthors of Origins andnbspnbspOrigins Reconsidered unimpeachablenbspnbspauthorities on the human fossil record turn theirnbspnbspattention to the most uncharted anthropological territorynbspnbspof all the future and mans role in defining itnbspnbspAccording to Leakey and Lewin man and hisnbspnbspsurrounding species are end products of history andnbspnbspchance Now however humans have the uniquenbspnbspopportunity to recognize their influence on the globalnbspnbspecosystem and consciously steer the outcome in ordernbspnbspto avoid triggering an unimaginable upheaval
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE From the author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe a powerful and important work about the future of the world blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a compelling account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyesOver the last half a billion years there have been five mass extinctions when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs This time around the cataclysm is us The Sixth Extinction draws on the work of scores of researchers in half a dozen disciplinesgeologists who study deep ocean cores botanists who follow the tree line as it climbs up the Andes and marine biologists who dive off the Great Barrier Reef Elizabeth Kolbert twotime winner of the National Magazine Award and New Yorker writer accompanies many of these researchers into the field and introduces you to a dozen speciessome already gone others facing extinctionthat are being affected by the sixth extinction 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 present day The sixth extinction is likely to be mankinds most lasting legacy as Kolbert observes it compels us to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human
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SuperSummary a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes offers highquality study guides for challenging works of literature This 69page guide for The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert includes detailed chapter summaries and analysis covering 13 chapters as well as several more indepth sections of expertwritten literary analysis Featured content includes commentary on major characters 25 important quotes essay topics and key themes like Humaninduced Extinction and Catastrophism
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Elaborate popups feature some wonderfully creepy creatures that just might dominate the ecosystem and be essential to our planets survival in an eerily realistic future worldWhether or not we know it the sixth global extinction is already under way propelled not by a meteor but by human activity on Earth Take a long step forward into the year 4847 with the help of stunning popups portraying eight fantastical creatures along with spreads and flaps presenting details about each one Paper engineer Shawn Sheehy envisions the aftermath of extinction as a flourishing ecosystem centered around fictional creatures that could evolve from existing organisms Promising high appeal for sciencefiction fans of all ages and plenty of food for discussion this evolutionary extravaganza offers a time line of the six extinction events in Earths history a field guide to each creature a diagram of species relationships a habitat map of the imagined ruins of Chicago and an illuminating authors note
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWS 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALISTA major book about the future of the world blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyesOver the last half a billion years there have been five mass extinctions when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs This time around the cataclysm is us In The Sixth Extinction twotime winner of the National Magazine Award and New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert draws on the work of scores of researchers in half a dozen disciplines accompanying many of them into the field geologists who study deep ocean cores botanists who follow the tree line as it climbs up the Andes marine biologists who dive off the Great Barrier Reef She introduces us to a dozen species some already gone others facing extinction including the Panamian golden frog staghorn coral the great auk and the Sumatran rhino 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 present day The sixth extinction is likely to be mankinds most lasting legacy as Kolbert observes it compels us to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human
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Over the last half a billion years there have been five mass extinctions of life on earth Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs Elizabeth Kolbert combines brilliant field reporting the history of ideas and the work of geologists botanists and marine biologists to tell the gripping stories of a dozen species including the Panamanian golden frog and the Sumatran rhino some already gone others at the point of vanishing The sixth extinction is likely to be mankinds most lasting legacy and Elizabeth Kolberts book urgently compels us to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE From the author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe a powerful and important work about the future of the world blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a compelling account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyesOver the last half a billion years there have been five mass extinctions when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs This time around the cataclysm is us The Sixth Extinction draws on the work of scores of researchers in half a dozen disciplinesgeologists who study deep ocean cores botanists who follow the tree line as it climbs up the Andes and marine biologists who dive off the Great Barrier Reef Elizabeth Kolbert twotime winner of the National Magazine Award and New Yorker writer accompanies many of these researchers into the field and introduces you to a dozen speciessome already gone others facing extinctionthat are being affected by the sixth extinction 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 present day The sixth extinction is likely to be mankinds most lasting legacy as Kolbert observes it compels us to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human
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The Sixth Extinction is a haunting account of the age in which we live Ecologists are calling it the Sixth Great Extinction and the world isnt losing just its ecological legacy also vanishing is a vast human legacy of languages and our ways of living seeing and knowingTerry Glavin confirms that we are in the midst of a nearly unprecedented catastrophic vanishing of animals plants and human cultures He argues that the language of environmentalism is inadequate innbspdescribing the unraveling of the vast system in which all these extinctions are actually related And he writes that were no longer gaining knowledge with every generation Were losing itnbspIn the face of what he describes as a dark and gathering sameness upon the Earth Glavin embarks on a global journey to meet the very things were losing a distinct species every ten minutes a unique vegetable variety every six hoursnbspan entirenbsplanguage every two weeks and on the way encounters some of the worlds wonderful rare things a humansized salmon in Russia a mysterious SinoTibetannbspsonglanguage a Malayan tiger the last of its kind and a strange tomato that tastes just like black cherry ice cream And he finds hope in the most unlikely placesa macaw roost in Costa Rica a small village in Ireland a relic community of Norse whalers in the North Atlantic the vault beneath the Royal Botanical Garden at Kew and the throne room of the Angh of Longwa in the eastern Himalayas A fresh narrative take on the usual doom and gloom environmentalism The Sixth Extinction draws upon zoology biology ecology anthropology and mythology to share the joys hidden within the long human struggle to conserve the worlds living things Here we find hope in whats left the absolute and stunning beauty in the Earths last cultures and creatures
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Over the last 530 million years there have been five mass extinctions of speciesthe last65 million years agowhen the dinosaurs disappearedThe biodiversity of our planet may now be on the vergeLeakey and Lewin believeof a sixth extinctioncaused this time by the relentless expansion and limitless appetites of human beings The new science of biodiversitypresented clearly and cogently by Leakey and Lewincombines insights from palaeontologybiologyecology and even economicsIt integrates the role of Darwenian evolution with the increasingly recognised importance of external and unpredictable forces
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Argues that the extinction of the dinosaurs was caused by a collision between the earth and a meteorite that resulted in atmospheric pollution and hazardous chemical conditions that destroyed larger animals
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Population sizes of vertebrate species mammals birds reptiles amphibians and fish have declined by 52 percent over the last 40 years in other words those populations around the globe have dropped by more than half in fewer than two human generations World Wildlife Fund Living Planet report 2014 This book straddles an awkward boundary between being a colorful popular work and a scientific literature review Profusely and beautifully illustrated with figures maps charts and period reconstructions Recommended Choice A good introduction to the great puzzle that is extinction study Publishers Weekly Selected by the Scientific American Book Club and now a more affordable paperback for a farwider audience For more than a century scientists have tried to identify and understand the precise processes responsible for species extinction Solving the species extinction puzzle has become even more important even urgent as human populations and technologies rival sealevel change volcanic eruptions and asteroid impacts as an extinction mechanism The Great Extinctions explores the search for an understanding of Earths five great extinction events and whether the sixth is upon us already Leading paleontologist Norman MacLeod examines the controversies and conclusions and what they mean to the efforts to preserve Earths biodiversity He also reveals how contrary to popular conception species extinction is as natural a process as species evolution Examining extinction over geological time he compares ancient extinction events and uses them to predict future extinctions Featuring the latest scientific evidence on the subject and informative illustrations and diagrams The Great Extinctions is an easytounderstand presentation of a complex and controversial subject
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