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The sixth extinction : biodiversity and its survival

by Richard Leakey, Roger Lewin

This work examines Earth's five previous mass extinctions and presents evidence that human activity is driving a sixth. It analyses historical patterns of species loss to contextualise the scale of the contemporary biodiversity crisis.

Accession 16857 ISBN 1857994736 Publisher Phoenix
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