Extinctions: Living and Dying in the Margin of Error

Author: Michael Hannah (Victoria University of Wellington) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 262 Are we now entering a mass extinction event? What can mass extinctions in Earth's history tell us about the Anthropocene? What do mass extinction events look like and how does life on Earth recover from them? The fossil record reveals periods when biodiversity exploded, and short intervals when much of life was wiped out in mass extinction events. In comparison with these ancient events, today's biotic crisis...Read more