The Sixth Extinction: Biodiversity and Its Survival by Richard E. Leakey
A Brilliant explanation and celabration of biodiversity,informed by the personal and first-hand experience of the world-famous scientist.
The Sixth Extinction
The Sixth Extinction
Summary
Over the last 530 million years there have been five mass extinctions of species, the last 65 million years ago, when the dinosaurs disappeared. This book argues that the biodiversity of our planet may now be on the verge of a sixth extinction, caused this time by human expansion.
The Sixth Extinction Summary
About Richard E. Leakey
Richard Leakey, the son of leading paleoanthropologists Louis and Mary Leakey, was Director of the National Museums of Kenya for twenty years and more recently has served his country in a more political role as Director of the Wildlife Service. He made the important discovery of the 'Turkana Boy', a virtually complete skeleton, and his popular books include Origins, The People of the Lake and The Making of Mankind. Sean Barrett narrated the BBC Modern History series, People's Century and appeared in television productions of Twelfth
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GOR001710549
9780297817338
0297817337
The Sixth Extinction: Biodiversity and Its Survival by Richard E. Leakey
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Orion Publishing Co
19960212
288
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