Extinction: A Very Short Introduction - Paul B. Wignall torrent

Category: Documentary, Science
Language: EnglishKeywords: Climate Evolution
Written by Paul B. Wignall
Read by Jonathan Cowley
Format: MP3
Length: 4 hrs and 7 mins
Categories: Science & Engineering, Science
Tantor Audio Release date: 10 September, 2019
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Print Publication date: 27 August 2019
Extinction has occurred throughout the history of life, with the result that nearly all the species that have ever existed are now extinct. Extinction: A Very Short Introduction looks at the causes and nature of extinctions, past and present, and the factors that can make a species vulnerable. Summarizing what we know about all of the major and minor extinction events, it examines some of the greatest debates in modern science, such as the relative role of climate and humans in the death of the Pleistocene megafauna, including mammoths and giant ground sloths, and the roles that global warming, ocean acidification, and deforestation are playing in present-day extinctions.
Keywords: climate, death, extinction, megafauna, Pleistocene, species
Length: 4 hrs and 7 mins
Categories: Science & Engineering, Science
Tantor Audio Release date: 10 September, 2019
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Print Publication date: 27 August 2019

Extinction has occurred throughout the history of life, with the result that nearly all the species that have ever existed are now extinct. Extinction: A Very Short Introduction looks at the causes and nature of extinctions, past and present, and the factors that can make a species vulnerable. Summarizing what we know about all of the major and minor extinction events, it examines some of the greatest debates in modern science, such as the relative role of climate and humans in the death of the Pleistocene megafauna, including mammoths and giant ground sloths, and the roles that global warming, ocean acidification, and deforestation are playing in present-day extinctions.

Keywords: climate, death, extinction, megafauna, Pleistocene, species