Extinction: A Radical History
Extinction: A Radical History With a new introduction by the authorSome thousands of years ago, the world was home to an immense variety of large mammals. Then human beings arrived. From wooly…
Specifikacia Extinction: A Radical History
Extinction: A Radical History
With a new introduction by the authorSome thousands of years ago, the world was home to an immense variety of large mammals. Then human beings arrived. From wooly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers to giant ground sloths and armadillos the size of automobiles, these spectacular creatures roamed freely.
But the devastation summoned by humans extends to humbler realms of creatures including beetles, bats and butterflies. Devouring their way down the food chain as they spread across the planet, they began a process of voracious extinction that has continued to the present.Headlines today are made by the existential threat confronting remaining large animals such as rhinos and pandas. Researchers generally agree that the current extinction rate is nothing short of catastrophic.
Currently the earth is losing about a hundred species every day.This