In The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, Riley Black walks listeners through what happened in the days, the years, the centuries, and the million years after the impact, tracking the sweeping disruptions that overtook this one spot, and...
Extinction (Biology)
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Auteur:Black, RileySommaire: - Auteur:Brannen, PeterSommaire:
Examination of the five known mass extinction events in the geologic record and their ties to Earth's carbon cycle. Discusses the dynamics for each event, which species survived and why, and the ways climate change could contribute to...
- Auteur:Kolbert, ElizabethSommaire:
Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on Earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to...
- Auteur:Kolbert, ElizabethSommaire:
À travers l’histoire, notre planète a connu cinq grandes extinctions de masse. Les scientifiques estiment aujourd’hui que nous nous dirigeons vers la sixième et la plus dévastatrice des extinctions depuis la disparition des dinosaures...
- Auteur:Shapiro, Beth AlisonSommaire:
Evolutionary biologist explains the science and ethics of recreating extinct species such as woolly mammoths, dodos, the Yangtze River dolphin, Steller's sea cow, the Tasmanian tiger, and more. Discusses determining candidate species,...
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Auteur:Walsh, BryanSommaire:What is going to cause our doom? How can we save ourselves from it? Bryan Walsh explores a multitude of apocalyptic situations and explains how we can decide our fate.
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Auteur:LePan, DonSommaire:More than 100 years in the future, the horrors of factory farming, combined with the widespread abuse of antibiotics, have led to mass extinctions. As paranoia about the food supply spreads, a forceful new logic takes hold. In the blink...
