TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kolbert,Elizabeth
AU  - Twomey,Anne
TI  - The sixth extinction: an unnatural history 
SN  - 9781250062185
AV  - QE721.2 .E97K65 2014 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Simon & Schuster Audio
KW  - Mass extinctions
KW  - Extinction (Biology)
KW  - Environmental disasters
KW  - Audiobooks
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Unabridged; Compact disc; Read by Anne Twomey ; with a prologue by the author
N2  - Over the past half billion years, there have been five major 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. In prose that is at once frank, entertaining and deeply informed, Elizabeth Kolbert provides an account of the disappearances occurring all around us and traces the evolution of humanity's understanding of extinction from its first articulation by Georges Cuvier in revolutionary Paris up through Lyell and Darwin and on to the present day. Kolbert shows that 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
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