| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xx, 428 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-402) and index. |
| Contents |
Extinction (sort of) explained -- Mass extinctions -- OK, what really happened to the dinosaurs? -- The dinosaurs are not extinct after all -- Your extinct ancestors -- The Pleistocene extinctions -- Extinctions (and nonexinctions) in near time (the last 1,000 years) -- Death (and extinction) by disease -- Threatened species, or under the gun -- The anti-extinctions -- Rescuing animals from oblivion -- Mammals back from the brink -- The oceans -- Everybody off the train. |
| Subject |
Extinct animals.
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Extinct animals. |
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Animal species.
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Animal species. |
| ISBN |
0060558032 |
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