The Miner's Canary Unraveling the Mysteries of Extinction.

The Miner's Canary Unraveling the Mysteries of Extinction.

Like the bird whose death signaled dangerous conditions in a mine, the demise of animals that once flourished should give humans pause. How is our fate linked to the earth's creatures, and the cycle of flourishing and extinction? Which are the simple workings of nature's order, and which a...

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Main Author: Eldredge, Niles
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1994.
Series:Princeton science library.
Subjects:
Extinction (Biology)
Ecology.
Biodiversity.
Extinction, Biological
Biodiversity
SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology
Ecology
Adansonia.
Aesthetics.
Algae.
American Museum of Natural History.
American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
Amherst College.
Arthropod.
Awareness.
Bacteria.
Basset Hound.
Biologist.
Broad-billed roller.
Brown University.
Carnivore.
Cenozoic.
Comoro Islands.
Cretaceous.
Darwinism.
East Africa.
Ecological crisis.
Ecosystem.
Endemism.
Eocene.
Evolution.
Extinction event.
Extinction.
Flora.
Forest floor.
Fossil collecting.
Future Evolution.
Genetic diversity.
Geologist.
Geology.
Giant coua.
Global temperature.
Guineafowl.
Herbivore.
Holocene extinction.
Hominidae.
Homo sapiens.
Human evolution.
Human eye.
Ian Tattersall.
Imagery.
In Specie.
Jellyfish.
Jurassic.
Lemur.
Living systems.
Longevity.
Mammal.
Mesite.
Mesozoic.
Miocene.
Multicellular organism.
Northern Hemisphere.
Oligocene.
Ordovician.
Organism.
Outcrop.
Overexploitation.
Paleocene.
Paleontology.
Paleozoic.
Permian.
Pheasant.
Plant.
Pleistocene.
Quaternary extinction event.
Quinine.
Rainforest.
Reason.
Result.
River mouth.
Rock (geology).
Rocky shore.
Sediment.
Sedimentary rock.
Serengeti.
Silurian.
Speciation.
State of the Environment.
Stratum.
Tanzania.
Tenrec.
Terrestrial animal.
Trilobite.
Tropical rainforest.
Unicellular organism.
University of London.
University of Minnesota.
University of Virginia.
Vegetation.
Vertebrate paleontology.
Vertebrate.
Wetland.
Yale University.
Year.
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Table of Contents:
  • Geologic Time Chart
  • Ch. 1. Extinctions Are for Real
  • Ch. 2. Santa Rosalia, or Why Are There So Many Kinds of Living Things?
  • Ch. 3. Biotic Armageddon: Deja Vu Over and Over Again
  • Ch. 4. Patterns and Clues in Paleozoic Mass Extinctions
  • Ch. 5. Extinction, and the Rise and Vicissitudes of Modern Life
  • Ch. 6. Without a Helping Hand: Causes of Mass Extinctions in the Geological Past
  • Ch. 7. The Ice Man Cometh: Climate Change, Human Action, and the Great Pleistocene Extinctions
  • Ch. 8. The Canary's Song: Land Use, Habitat Reduction, and Extinction.

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