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- 科普
- 英文原版
- 古生物
- Environmental
- 历史
- 自然科学
- 生物
- Biology
- 环境科学
- 生物多样性
- 气候变化
- 物种灭绝
- 生态危机
- 人类影响
- 科学探索
- 未来预测
- 保护行动
- 气候变化影响
具体描述
A major book about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes
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 be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. This time around, the cataclysm is us. In The Sixth Extinction, two-time winner of the National Magazine Award and New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert draws on the work of scores of researchers in half a dozen disciplines, accompanying many of them into the field: geologists who study deep ocean cores, botanists who follow the tree line as it climbs up the Andes, marine biologists who dive off the Great Barrier Reef. She introduces us to a dozen species, some already gone, others facing extinction, including the Panamian golden frog, staghorn coral, the great auk, and the Sumatran rhino. Through these stories, Kolbert provides a moving account of the disappearances occurring all around us and traces the evolution of extinction as concept, from its first articulation by Georges Cuvier in revolutionary Paris up through the present day. The sixth extinction is likely to be mankind's most lasting legacy; as Kolbert observes, it compels us to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human.
作者简介
Elizabeth Kolbert is a staff writer at The New Yorker. She is the author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change. She lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts, with her husband and children.
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作为书的译者，给自己的书写书评是件多多少少有些奇怪的事情。本以为无话可说，但等到落笔时才发现，想说的很多。一本书的译者大概也是最仔细的一位读者，一个词也不曾放过。然而越是读得仔细，越是有无数的想法，却受困于译者的身份，无处倾吐。借书评之机，随便说说吧。 （...
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I don't like the choice of words in this book yet this book is recommend by Bill Gates and takes approximately three hours to read. So why not?
评分Enchanting descriptions about the trips and interesting people are the best part. Dying bats in caverns. Snorkeling amid coral reefs. Wading marshes to catch the amphibians.
评分好喜欢这本。有些还没有被认识到，就已经消失。人类中心，人类世。
评分好的非虚构类写作真的是透明的，让人看不到作者的技巧和经营，让我们专心的想：糟糕，地球要灭亡了。。。
评分201409，和The Box一样都是记者出身的作家积累了大量资料后写的纪实类的书。大量生物学生词，不停查字典。五分之一的书是参考资料。
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