Extinction : a very short introduction / Paul B. Wignall.
Most people are familiar with the dodo and the dinosaur, but extinction has occurred throughout the history of life, with the result that nearly all the species that have ever existed are now extinct. Today, species are disappearing at an ever increasing rate, whilst past losses have occurred during...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2019. ©2019. |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Very short introductions ;
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Table of Contents:
- Why extinctions happen
- Extinction today and efforts to stop it
- Extinction in the past
- The great catastrophes
- How to kill nearly everything
- What happened to the Ice Age megafauna?