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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?

Author/Creator:

Leakey, Richard E.

Contributors:

Lewin, Roger

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The sixth extinction: patterns of life and the future of humankind [by Leakey, R.E.]

Subjects:

Nature — Effect of human beings on

Evolution (Biology)

Extinction (Biology)

Nature

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