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THE SIXTH EXTINCTION: AN UNNATURAL HISTORY
Copyright © 2014 by Elizabeth Kolbert.
All rights reserved.
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Henry Holt and Co.,
175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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Jacket photograph from the National Museum of Natural History, courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution
e-ISBN 978-0-8050-9979-9
First Edition: February 2014
If there is danger in the human trajectory, it is not so much in the survival of our
own species as in the fulfillment of the ultimate irony of organic evolution: that in the
instant of achieving self-understanding through the mind of man, life has doomed its most
beautiful creations.
—E. O. WILSON
Centuries of centuries and only in the present do things happen.
—JORGE LUIS BORGES
CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Copyright
Epigraph
Author’s Note
Prologue
I: The Sixth Extinction
II: The Mastodon’s Molars
III: The Original Penguin
IV: The Luck of the Ammonites
V: Welcome to the Anthropocene
VI: The Sea Around Us
VII: Dropping Acid
VIII: The Forest and the Trees
IX: Islands on Dry Land
X: The New Pangaea
XI: The Rhino Gets an Ultrasound
XII: The Madness Gene
XIII: The Thing with Feathers
Acknowledgments
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Photo/Illustration Credits
Index
About the Author
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