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2018., Ecco Call No: 576.84 Bra Edition: First Ecco paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Examines the Earth's geological history and five major mass extinction events--such as the one that killed the dinosaurs--and argues that climate change may have played a role in all five, and offers a warning for the possible future of humanity and a sixth extinction event that may be on its way.
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[2016], Juvenile, Zest Books Call No: HI-INT 591.68 CAM Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: A chronicle of the planet's extinct megafauna profiles such creatures as passenger pigeons, moas, thylacines, and baiji to identify modern-world threats to extant species and how they can be saved.
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-- Life at the brink.2015., PBS Distribution Call No: Earth Science DVD MAS Edition: Widescreen. Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: It's a mystery on a global scale: five times in Earth's past, life has been nearly extinguished, the vast majority of plants and animals annihilated in a geologic instant. What triggered these dramatic events? And what might they tell us about the fate of our world? Joins scientists around the globe as they unravel the mysteries of two of the most dramatic mass extinctions.
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2015., Picador, Henry Holt and Company Call No: 576.8 4 Edition: First Picador editi Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Over the last half billion years, there have been five major mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on Earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. This time around the cataclysm is us. In this book the author tells us why and how human beings have altered life on the planet in a way no species has before. She provides a moving account of the disappearances of various species occurring all around us and traces the evolution of extinction as concept, from its first articulation by Georges Cuvier in revolutionary Paris up to Lyell and Darwin, and through the present day. 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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-- 6th extinctionÃ2014., Picador, Henry Holt and Co Call No: ENVIRONMENTAL Edition: 1st Picador ed.: Ja Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Explores how human beings have altered life on Earth, discussing a dozen species facing extinction or already extinct.
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-- 6th extinction2015., Picador, Henry Holt and Company Call No: 576.8 4 Edition: First Picador editi Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Over the last half billion years, there have been five major mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on Earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. This time around the cataclysm is us. In this book the author tells us why and how human beings have altered life on the planet in a way no species has before. She provides a moving account of the disappearances of various species occurring all around us and traces the evolution of extinction as concept, from its first articulation by Georges Cuvier in revolutionary Paris up to Lyell and Darwin, and through the present day. 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.
