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The black-footed ferret, once thought extinct, was rediscovered in Wyoming in 1981. In this book, Tim Clark tells the story of subsequent efforts to save the bl
Averting Global Extinction
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Pages: 144
Authors: Louis S. Berger
Categories: Psychology
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The extensive literature about averting ecological disasters, nuclear catastrophe, and unsupportable overpopulation typically describes dangers, analyzes their
Dodging Extinction
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Authors: Anthony D. Barnosky
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-10-01 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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Paleobiologist Anthony D. Barnosky weaves together evidence from the deep past and the present to alert us to the looming Sixth Mass Extinction and to offer a p
Scatter, Adapt, and Remember
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Authors: Annalee Newitz
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In its 4.5 billion–year history, life on Earth has been almost erased at least half a dozen times: shattered by asteroid impacts, entombed in ice, smothered b
Flight Ways
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Authors: Thom van Dooren
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A leading figure in the emerging field of extinction studies, Thom van Dooren puts philosophy into conversation with the natural sciences and his ethnographic e