Dying Planet: The Extinction of Species

by Jon Erickson

Book Overview

Is life on earth facing a new period of mass extinction like those that have destroyed billions of species in the past? In Dying Planet, science writer Jon Erickson tells the story of history's great episodes of plant and animal extinction and speculates on how modern man's continued destruction of large ecosystems around the globe could have a similar impact on life in the centuries to come.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0830667261
• ISBN13: 9780830667260
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Tab Books
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.