Extinction and the Human: Four American Encounters

by Timothy Sweet

The Americas have been the site of two distinct waves of human migration, each associated with human-caused extinctions. The first occurred during the late Pleistocene era, some ten to thirty thousand years ago; the other began during the time of European settler-colonization and continues to this day.

In Extinction and the Human Timothy Sweet ponders the realities of animal extinction and endangerment and the often divergent Native...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812253426
• ISBN13: 9780812253429
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"