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02288aam a2200397Ii 4500 001 7BC99742DCEB11E4A31A28A4DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20221102014946 008 140409r20152014nyua b 001 0 eng 020 $a 1250062187 020 $a 9781250062185 035 $a (OCoLC)876349700 040 $a YDXCP $b eng $c YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d IH9 $e rda $d SINLB $d SILO 100 1 $a Kolbert, Elizabeth, $e author. 245 14 $a The sixth extinction : $b an unnatural history / $c Elizabeth Kolbert. 250 $a First Picador edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Picador, Henry Holt and Company, $c 2015. 300 $a 319 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 21 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-304) and index. 520 $a 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. 650 0 $a Mass extinctions. 650 0 $a Extinction (Biology) 650 0 $a Environmental disasters. 941 $a 10 952 $l BWPD851 $d 20210427012417.0 952 $l TZPC572 $d 20201017013540.0 952 $l PFPC906 $d 20200130080244.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20190925012926.0 952 $l NOPA983 $d 20180706041446.0 952 $l HUAX887 $d 20161123121133.0 $m HUAX887 952 $l LOAX706 $d 20151023010324.0 952 $l WSPF215 $d 20150410014140.0 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20150408010820.0 952 $l OPAX566 $d 20150407010727.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7BC99742DCEB11E4A31A28A4DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b UIRInitiate Another SILO Locator Search