The Miner's Canary (eBook)

Unraveling the Mysteries of Extinction

Niles Eldredge (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
9780691241845 (ISBN)

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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 are omens of ecological disaster? Does human activity accelerate extinction? What really causes it? In an illuminating and elegantly written account of the widespread reduction of the world's wildlife, renowned paleontologist Niles Eldredge poses these questions and examines humankind's role in the larger life cycles of the earth, composing a provocative general theory of extinction.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.2.2022
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Science Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Science Library
• Zusatzinfo: 1 chart
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Schlagworte: Adansonia • Adaptation • Aesthetics • After Man • algae • allopatric speciation • American Museum of Natural History • American School of Classical Studies at Athens • Amherst College • Ammonoidea • apex predator • Arthropod • awareness • Bacteria • Basset Hound • Big Business • biodiversity • Biological Anthropology • biologist • Blitzkrieg • Brachiopod • Brain coral • Breccia • Broad-billed roller • Brown University • By Nature • carnivore • Cenozoic • Charles Darwin • Coccolith • Comoro Islands • Creationism • Cretaceous • Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event • crustacean • Crust (geology) • Darwinism • Decomposer • Deep sea • Diatom • Disease • East Africa • Ecological Crisis • Ecology • ecosystem • endemism • Eocene • E. O. Wilson • evaporation • Evolution • evolutionary biology • extinction • extinction event • Famennian • Flora • foraminifera • forest floor • Fossil collecting • fungus • Future Evolution • genetic diversity • geologist • Geology • Giant coua • Global temperature • Guineafowl • Herbivore • Himalayas • Holocene • Holocene extinction • hominidae • Homo erectus • Homo sapiens • horseshoe crab • Human Evolution • human eye • Hunter-Gatherer • Ian Tattersall • Imagery • Impact event • Indo-Pacific • In Specie • In the Abyss • introduced species • Invertebrate • Iridium anomaly • Jellyfish • Jurassic • komodo dragon • Late Cretaceous • Lazarus taxon • lemur • Life • Living systems • Longevity • lungfish • Mammal • Marine ecosystem • Mesite • Mesozoic • milankovitch cycles • Miocene • Multicellular organism • Neanderthal • North America • Northern Hemisphere • Oligocene • Ordovician • organism • ornithischia • outcrop • Overexploitation • paleocene • paleontology • paleozoic • Permian • Petroleum • Phacops • pheasant • Phylum • Plant • Pleistocene • predation • quantum evolution • Quaternary extinction event • quinine • Rainforest • Raymond Dart • reason • Reptile • result • Rhynchosaur • Richard Leakey • river • river mouth • Rock (geology) • Rocky Shore • Sauropoda • Scarcity • sea level • Sea pen • seasonality • Sediment • sedimentary rock • Serengeti • Shrub • silurian • South Pole • Speciation • Speciation (genetic algorithm) • State of the Environment • stratum • supercontinent • Tanzania • Tempo and Mode in Evolution • Tenrec • Terrestrial animal • Tourism • Transitional fossil • Trilobite • Tropical rainforest • Uncertainty • Unicellular organism • University of London • University of Minnesota • University of Virginia • Vegetation • Vertebrate • vertebrate paleontology • Villafranchian • vitalism • wetland • Yale University • year
• ISBN-13: 9780691241845 / 9780691241845