The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

Palaeontology, translated by Jessie Elliot Ritchie and James Ritchie (Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd,
1923), 224.
would attract no more attention: William L. Straus Jr. and A. J. E. Cave, “Pathology and the
Posture of Neanderthal Man,” Quarterly Review of Biology 32 (1957): 348–63.
“We are brought suddenly to the realization”: Ray Solecki, Shanidar, the First Flower People
(New York: Knopf, 1971), 250.
In a paper published in Science: Richard E. Green et al., “A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal
Genome,” Science 328 (2010): 710–22.
When researchers from Leipzig: E. Herrmann et al., “Humans Have Evolved Specialized
Skills of Social Cognition: The Cultural Intelligence Hypothesis,” Science 317 (2007): 1360–66.
In a paper published ... in Nature: David Reich et al., “Genetic History of an Archaic Hominin
Group from Denisova Cave in Siberia,” Nature 468 (2010): 1053–60.
CHAPTER XIII: THE THING WITH FEATHERS
“Futurology has never been”: Jonathan Schell, The Fate of the Earth (New York: Knopf, 1982),
21.
“the problem of sharing our earth”: Carson, Silent Spring, 296.
“human language is like the genetic code”: Michael Benton, “Paleontology and the History
of Life,” in Evolution: The First Four Billion Years, edited by Michael Ruse and Joseph Travis
(Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009), 84.
“Homo sapiens might not only be the agent”: Richard E. Leakey and Roger Lewin, The Sixth
Extinction: Patterns of Life and the Future of Humankind (1995; reprint, New York: Anchor, 1996), 249.
“Don’t worry”: Annalee Newitz, Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass
Extinction (New York: Doubleday, 2013), 263.