![]() ![]() The author walks us through the End-Ordovician to the End-Cretaceous, describing flora and fauna and debating catastrophic events which contributed to the end of each. What I found instead was a frontier of discovery with much left to be unearthed, and a story still largely obscured by the fog of deep time.” “In researching these ancient disasters, I expected to find a story as neat and tidy as the one about the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. In The Ends of the World, the award-winning science journalist explores the five major mass extinctions, searching for the causes behind each one and how they relate to our environment today. Peter Brannen is convinced there is still more to the story. Wilson, one might wonder what new lessons there are to learn. After The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert and Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life by Edward O. ![]() Global warming and climate change have been topics in the news for decades. Do we really need another book about mass extinction? ![]()
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