The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

advises building cities “on Mars, Titan, Europa, the moon, asteroids, and any other uninhabited chunk of matter ...

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS A journalist writing a book about mass extinction needs a lot of help. Many very knowle ...

understanding topics in climate science and marine chemistry. I am deeply indebted to him and to his ...

I’d like to thank the reference librarians at Williams College, who tracked down books and articles ...

helped in more ways than he should have. I wrote this book with him and for him. ...

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41 (2007): 483–91. It is estimated that one-third of reef-building corals: Michael Hoffmann et al., ...

“Is not Cuvier”: Quoted in Toby A. Appel, The Cuvier-Geoffroy Debate: French Biology in the Decades ...

Frogs,” PLOS ONE 8 (2013). Darwin presented them to Lyell: David Dobbs, Reef Madness: Charles Darwin, Alex ...

It is not mentioned: Many, but not all, of Darwin’s letters are available to the public online; Elizabeth Smit ...

Ammonites,” Geobios 54 (2012): 87–98. “Basically, if you were a triceratops”: Personal communication, Steve D’Hon ...

Geoscience 5 (2012): 86–89. the seas warmed: Timothy Kearsey et al., “Isotope Excursions and Pala ...

(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002), 6. But even this spectacular event: Jennifer Chu, “Timeline of a M ...

realize “that you are standing”: Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams (1986; reprint, New York: Vintage, 2001) ...

perhaps as far as the mid-Miocene: Aradhna K. Tripati, Christopher D. Roberts, and Robert E. Eagle, “Coupling o ...

“in the face of climatic change”: Thomas E. Lovejoy, “Biodiversity: What Is It?” in Biodiversity II: Und ...

“Declines in Woodland Salamander Abundance Associated with Non-Native Earthworm and Plant Invasions,” Conservati ...

Evolution of Sexual Dimorphism in New Zealand Giant Moa (Dinornis) and Other Ratites,” Proceedings o ...

Palaeontology, translated by Jessie Elliot Ritchie and James Ritchie (Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1923), 224. would a ...