The Miner's Canary: Unraveling the Mysteries of Extinction: 13 (Princeton Science Library) - Softcover

Eldredge, Niles

 
9780691036557: The Miner's Canary: Unraveling the Mysteries of Extinction: 13 (Princeton Science Library)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0691036551 ISBN 13: 9780691036557
Verlag: Princeton University Press, 1994

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Like the bird whose death signaled dangerous conditions in a mine, the demise of animals that once flourished should give humans pause. How is our fate linked to the earth's creatures, and the cycle of flourishing and extinction? Which are the simple workings of nature's order, and which are omens of ecological disaster? Does human activity accelerate extinction? What really causes it? In an illuminating and elegantly written account of the widespread reduction of the world's wildlife, renowned paleontologist Niles Eldredge poses these questions and examines humankind's role in the larger life cycles of the earth, composing a provocative general theory of extinction.

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Niles Eldredge is the Curator of the Department of Invertebrates at the American Museum of Natural History.

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In an illuminating and elegantly written account of the widespread reduction of the world's wildlife, renowned paleontologist Niles Eldredge poses these questions and examines humankind's role in the larger life cycles of the earth, composing a provocative general theory of extinction.

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Verlag
Princeton University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1994
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0691036551
ISBN 13 
9780691036557
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Anzahl der Seiten
272
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