The sixth extinction: patterns of life and the future of humankind
Richard Leakey and Roger Lewin
- Resource Type:
- Book (Print/Paper)
- Edition:
- 1st Anchor Books ed.
- Publication:
- New York : Anchor Books, 1996
- Copyright:
- ©1995
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- Table of Contents:
- A personal perspective.
- Time and change. Life's salient mystery ; The mainspring of evolution ; The big five ; Extinction: Bad genes or bad luck?
- The engine of evolution. Homo Sapiens, the pinnacle of evolution? ; Endless forms most beautiful.
- The balance of nature? Stability and chaos in ecology ; Human impacts of the past ; The modern elephant story.
- The future. An accident of history ; The sixth extinction ; Does it matter?
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- Contributors:
- Languages:
- English
- Language Notes:
- Item content: English
- General Notes:
- Originally published: New York : Doubleday, 1995.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-262) and index. - Physical Description:
- 271 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Call Numbers:
- GF75 .L425 1996
- ISBNs:
- 0385468091
- OCLC Numbers:
- 36002376