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The Miner's Canary Unraveling the Mysteries of Extinction.

Like the bird whose death signaled dangerous conditions in a mine, the demise of animals that once flourished should give humans pause. How is our fate linked to the earth's creatures, and the cycle of flourishing and extinction? Which are the simple workings of nature's order, and which a...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Eldredge, Niles
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1994.
Colección:Princeton science library.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 0 |t Geologic Time Chart --  |g Ch. 1.  |t Extinctions Are for Real --  |g Ch. 2.  |t Santa Rosalia, or Why Are There So Many Kinds of Living Things? --  |g Ch. 3.  |t Biotic Armageddon: Deja Vu Over and Over Again --  |g Ch. 4.  |t Patterns and Clues in Paleozoic Mass Extinctions --  |g Ch. 5.  |t Extinction, and the Rise and Vicissitudes of Modern Life --  |g Ch. 6.  |t Without a Helping Hand: Causes of Mass Extinctions in the Geological Past --  |g Ch. 7.  |t The Ice Man Cometh: Climate Change, Human Action, and the Great Pleistocene Extinctions --  |g Ch. 8.  |t The Canary's Song: Land Use, Habitat Reduction, and Extinction. 
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