The End of the Wild (Boston Review Books)
Publisher: The MIT Press; Boston Review; MIT Press
Published: September 1, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 105
ISBN-13: 9780262134736
Subjects: Ecological science, the Biosphere; Nature/Ecology; Nature; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection; Biodiversity conservation
First sentence: FOR THE PAST SEVERAL BILLION YEARS evolution on Earth has been driven by small-scale incremental forces, such as sexual selection, punctuated by cosmic-scale disruptions-plate tectonics, planetary geochemistry, global climate shifts, and even extraterrest