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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (2014)

by Elizabeth Kolbert(Favorite Author)

3.52 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0805092994 (ISBN13: 9780805092998)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Henry Holt and Co. (Georg von Holtzbrinck)

review 1: Interesting, and quite unsettling. The chapters read like New Yorker longreads, not surprising because the author is a New Yorker staff writer. While it is a pop scence book, it's well referenced, and I found myself loading lots of scientific articles on my iPad for further reading. I personally liked the chapter on Georges Cuvier very much. With all the - justified - focus on Darwin it's easy to forget his predecessors so I am glad this book gave me a much needed short intro on Cuvier.
review 2: Ms Kolbert blends personal experiences with current and previous research on previous mass extinctions (or near extinctions) of life on earth. I appreciated her calm and measured explanations of of the extinction process. This effort is not a polemic and the book doe... mores not divide the world of activists and opponents into good and bad categories. About half-way through the book I found myself getting bored with the topic. Not the author's fault, but my own shallow interest in the topic. less

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