The Miner's Canary: Unraveling the Mysteries of Extinction - Hardcover

Eldredge, Niles

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9781852274559: The Miner's Canary: Unraveling the Mysteries of Extinction

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ISBN 10: 1852274557 ISBN 13: 9781852274559

Publisher: Stoddart Publishing, 1992

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The canary's death in a coalpit alerted miners to odourless, poisonous gases but does the decrease in songbirds in the northern hemisphere foreshadow an ecological collapse? In this book paleontologist Niles Eldredge unveils his theory of extinction by exploring the evidence from the first living forms 3.5 billion years ago to the present. The book illuminates the most pressing environmental questions of today such as what causes extinction and are human beings accelerating extinction in other species?

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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.

About the Author:

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

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