num_pages: 253
description: More than 99% of all life that has ever existed on this planet is extinct. Moreover, human acceleration of the extinction of species has created a crisis in biodiversity. How can the history of past life be retreived? How does this history bear on our understanding of the organization and evolution of present-day species? These questions are addressed in extinction and phylogeny.
language: English
title: Extinction and Phylogeny
titlecomplete: Extinction and Phylogeny
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Columbia University Press