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100 1  Kolbert, Elizabeth,|eauthor. 
245 14 The sixth extinction :|ban unnatural history /|cElizabeth 
       Kolbert. 
250    First Picador edition. 
264  1 New York :|bPicador, Henry Holt and Company,|c2015. 
264  4 |c©2014 
300    319 pages :|billustrations ;|c21 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-304) and 
       index. 
505 00 |gAuthor's note --|gPrologue --|gI:|tThe sixth extinction 
       --|gII:|tThe mastodon's molars --|gIII.|tThe original 
       penguin --|gIV.|tThe luck of the ammonites --|gV:|tWelcome
       to the anthropocene --|gVI:|tThe sea around us --|gVII:
       |tDropping acid --|gVIII:|tThe forest and the trees --|gIX
       :|tIslands on dry land --|gX:|tThe new Pangaea --|gXI:
       |tThe rhino gets an ultrasound --|gXII:|tThe madness gene 
       --|gXIII:|tThe thing with feathers --|gAcknowledgments --
       |gNotes --|gSelected bibliography --|gPhoto/Illustration 
       credits --|gIndex. 
520    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. 
586    Pulitzer Prize, 2015. 
650  0 Mass extinctions. 
650  0 Extinction (Biology) 
650  0 Environmental disasters. 
650  0 Human ecology. 
650  0 Nature|xEffect of human beings on. 
650  7 SCIENCE|xEnvironmental Science.|2bisacsh 
650  7 SCIENCE|xLife Sciences|xEvolution.|2bisacsh 
650  7 Environmental disasters.|2cct 
650  7 Extinction (Biology)|2cct 
650  7 Mass extinctions.|2cct 
650  7 Environmental disasters.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01741651 
650  7 Extinction (Biology)|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00918969 
650  7 Human ecology.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00962941 
650  7 Mass extinctions.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01749765 
650  7 Nature|xEffect of human beings on.|2fast
       |0(OCoLC)fst01034564 
650  7 Extinct animals.|2sears 
650  7 Environmental disasters.|2sears 
775 08 |iReproduction of (manifestation):|aKolbert, Elizabeth.
       |tSixth extinction.|dNew York : Henry Holt and Company, 
       2014|w(DLC)  2013028683 
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