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ExtinctionsCondition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9780500298633 Year: 2025 Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd Description: A journey through the great mass extinction events that have shaped our Earth: 'Deeply informed and readable' Nature In this vast sweep of our Earth's history, Michael Benton brings the deep past to life as never before. Deploying the cutting edge tools in biology, chemistry, physics and geology that are transforming our understanding of previous
Condition: BRAND NEWISBN: 9780500298633
Year: 2025
Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd
Description:
A journey through the great mass-extinction events that have shaped our Earth: 'Deeply informed and readable' Nature
In this vast sweep of our Earth's history, Michael Benton brings the deep past to life as never before. Deploying the cutting-edge tools in biology, chemistry, physics and geology that are transforming our understanding of previous environmental cataclysms - including the incredible new discovery of a hitherto unknown extinction event - he uncovers not only their lethal effects but also the processes that brought about such large-scale destruction.
Beginning with the oldest extinction, Benton investigates the Late Ordovician, which set the evolution of the first animals on an entirely new course; the late Devonian, brought on by global warming; the cataclysmic End-Permian, which wiped out over 90 per cent of all life on Earth; and, book-ending the age of the dinosaurs, the newly discovered Carnian Pluvial Event and the End-Cretaceous asteroid. He examines how global warming, acid rain, ocean acidification, erupting volcanoes and meteorite impact have affected conditions on Earth, the drastic consequences for global ecology, and how life in turn survived, adapted and evolved.
This expert retelling of scientific breakthroughs allows us to link long-ago upheavals to our modern crises. As today's climate scientists and political leaders grapple to understand these processes and our planet enters the sixth great extinction, these insights from the past may hold the key to survival.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2014
★★★★★ 5
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i cant wait to read it!!!!!
It came in great condition just like the ones I bought in australia
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Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2009
★★★★★ 3
not as funny as others
the other simpsons libary of wisdom books are better. but still a fun read and good for the price. Moe
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Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2013
★★★★★ 5
Great product minus the shipping
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The product itself is great. I’m loving this graphic novel collection. My gripe is with the way in which it was shipped. A heavy box set like this needs more shipping protection than the thin bubble wrap package it was shipped in, as it sustained quite a bit of damage in shipping to the outer box. I contemplated returning this, but since books were undamaged I decided to keep it. It is still a bit disappointing though. Great price though and it shipped very quickly.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2026
★★★★★ 5
Graphic novel
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Great gift for teenage boy.
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