This book examines an important and growing issue among ecologists, conservation biologists, and archaeologists, namely recent extinction of species, and will focus on treatments of losses thought to have been caused by humans in some way over the past 40,000 years when Homo sapiens spread worldwide. There is an exemplary list of leading figures in this debate, and the book should have impact for the debate on current conservation issues and biodiversity.
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`This book is a must-read if you have any curiosity, fascination, or professional interest in extinctions of the past or present. If you are among those concerned about our environment and the fact that we are losing more animal species each year, you should read this book.' Discovering Archaeology, 1:5 (1999)
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This review is from: Extinctions in Near Time: Causes, Contexts, and Consequences (Advances in Vertebrate Paleobiology) (Hardcover)
The very much like the book. I thought it was very informative and coming from me (one who does not like to read factual books) that is saying something. I do not think everyone will react the same way to the book as i did. i like it because i am an animal enthusiast and any more information about conservation and extinction habits is music to my eyes (lol) anyway i would recommend this book to all who are interested in animals or want to have an informational book for projects. but many might not like it because it is written as die hard facts, it does not have a plot and would not be interesting to those who do not appreciate animals or science. ManPhee compiles a bunch of informtion based on the editors he gathered it from. it reads sort of like how u would find a history book, with graphs and charts to back up his info all in all it was very informative and i got lot out of it.
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Mass extinctions are real events that have had a profound effect on the course of biological evolutionary history. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
unresolved extinctions, pragmatic species concept, disharmonious conjunctions, extinction categories, representative body mass, megafaunal sites, extinction category, extinction chronologies, anthropogenic model, extinction window, collagen extraction, coastal taxa, proven extant, naive fauna, insular extinctions, target taxon, extinction date, egg length, extinction pulses, sampling bins, extinction lists, small taxa, megafaunal species, systematic validity, small petrels Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Zealand, Lake Victoria, North America, New York, New Guinea, South Island, Prehistoric Revolution, Red List, Lake Lanao, Wrangel Island, University of Arizona Press, Mwanza Gulf, New World, Smithsonian Institution Press, United States, Younger Dryas, Irian Jaya, Kluwer Academic, New Haven, Plenum Publishers, Puerto Rico, Yale University Press, Near Time, New South Wales, Oxford University Press New!
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Mass extinctions are real events that have had a profound effect on the course of biological evolutionary history. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
unresolved extinctions, pragmatic species concept, disharmonious conjunctions, extinction categories, representative body mass, megafaunal sites, extinction category, extinction chronologies, anthropogenic model, extinction window, collagen extraction, coastal taxa, proven extant, naive fauna, insular extinctions, target taxon, extinction date, egg length, extinction pulses, sampling bins, extinction lists, small taxa, megafaunal species, systematic validity, small petrels Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Zealand, Lake Victoria, North America, New York, New Guinea, South Island, Prehistoric Revolution, Red List, Lake Lanao, Wrangel Island, University of Arizona Press, Mwanza Gulf, New World, Smithsonian Institution Press, United States, Younger Dryas, Irian Jaya, Kluwer Academic, New Haven, Plenum Publishers, Puerto Rico, Yale University Press, Near Time, New South Wales, Oxford University Press New!
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- Biodiversity: An Introduction by Kevin J. Gaston on page 137, and Back Matter
- Macroecology: Concepts and Consequences: 43rd Symposium of the British Ecological Society (Symposia of the British Ecological Society) by Tim M. Blackburn on page 365
- Wild Earth: Wild Ideas for a World Out of Balance by Tom Butler on page 103
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