

Extinction
A Very Short Introduction
Author: Paul B. Wignall
Narrator: Jonathan Cowley
Unabridged: 4 hr 7 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 09/10/2019
Categories: Nonfiction, Nature, Environmental Conservation & Protection, Science, Life Sciences
Synopsis
In this Very Short Introduction, Paul B. Wignall looks at the causes and nature of extinctions, past and present, and the factors that can make a species vulnerable. Summarizing what we know about all of the major and minor extinction events, he examines some of the greatest debates in modern science, such as the relative role of climate and humans in the death of the Pleistocene megafauna, including mammoths and giant ground sloths, and the roles that global warming, ocean acidification, and deforestation are playing in present-day extinctions.