Terra
Subtitle: Our 100-Million-Year-Old Ecosystem--and the Threats That Now Put It at Risk
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: November 13, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780374273255
Subjects: Ecology; Science; Environmental Studies; Science/Mathematics; Environmental Science; Life Sciences - Ecology; Life Sciences - Evolution; Science / General; Effect of human beings on; Evolution (Biology); Extinction (Biology); Nature
Description: "The natural world as humans have always known it evolved close to 100 million years ago with the appearance of flowering plants and pollinating insects during the age of the dinosaurs. Its tremendous history is now in danger of profound, catastrophic disruption. In Terra, a brilliant synthesis of evolutionary biology, paleontology, and modern environmental science, Michael Novacek shows how all three can help us understand and prevent what he and others call today's "mass extinction event.""--Jacket.