Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of
life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently …

Some 250 million years ago, the earth suffered the greatest biological crisis in its history.
Around 95 percent of all living species died out—a global catastrophe far greater than the …

This is the first major book to present a comprehensive overview of the current state of
extinction studies. At the end of the journey, Raup has put forward the best science of the …

There have been five Mass Extinction events in the history of Earth's biodiversity, all caused
by dramatic but natural phenomena. It has been claimed that the Sixth Mass Extinction may …

Some thousands of years ago, the world was home to an immense variety of large
mammals. From wooly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers to giant ground sloths and …

Richard Leakey, One Of The World's Foremost Experts On Man's Evolutionary Past, Now
Turns His Eye To The Future And Doesn't Like What He Sees. To the philosophical the earth …

Today the number of species is the largest in the history of life; however a considerable
proportion of that biodiversity is endangered and many species have suffered anthropogenic …

At this very moment, many of Earth's living kinds are slipping away; sometimes quietly,
sometimes in bright bursts of controversy, chaos, and pain. As a growing cohort of biologists …

A multidisciplinary exploration of extinction and what comes next What comes after
extinction? Including both prominent and unusual voices in current debates around the …

The first book to review all the evidence concerning both the dinosaur extinctions and all the
other major extinctions-of plant, animal, terrestrial, and marine life-in the history of life. All the …