I was sent a copy of The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert Release Date: 2014-02-11 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 eyes.Over 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…
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