Extinctions : living and dying in the margin of error

Extinctions : living and dying in the margin of error / Michael Hannah.

"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 interval...

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Main Author: Hannah, Michael, 1954- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Subjects:
Mass extinctions.
Table of Contents:
  • The Anthropocene and the earth system
  • A Short detour: the fossil record and the geological time scale
  • The Origin of animals and the emergence of the earth system
  • Documenting ancient biodiversity
  • Mass extinctions: the basics
  • Causes of the end-Permian and end-Cretaceous extinction events
  • Time heals all: recovering from a mass extinction
  • The Late quaternary megafaunal extinctions
  • Surviving the Anthropocene.

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