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The six essays in 'The Last Extinction' are united by the authors' passionate commitment to preserving the natural diversity of the earth's myriad plant and animal species.... As this book demonstrates, when we kill these other species, we kill a bit of ourselves. - Dorian Sagan, New York Times Book Review
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-- Dorion Sagan, The New York Times Book Review (review of the first edition)
" The essays are united by the authors' passionate commitment to preserving the natural diversity, both genetic and esthetic, of the earth's myriad plant and animal species. As this book demonstrates ... when we kill these other species, either directly or by destroying their habitats, we kill a bit of ourselves." -- Dorion Sagan, The New York Times Book Review (review of the first edition)
& quot; The essays are united by the authors' passionate commitment to preserving the natural diversity, both genetic and esthetic, of the earth's myriad plant and animal species. As this book demonstrates ... when we kill these other species, either directly or by destroying their habitats, we kill a bit of ourselves.& quot; -- Dorion Sagan, The New York Times Book Review (review of the first edition)
"The essays are united by the authors' passionate commitment to preserving the natural diversity, both genetic and esthetic, of the earth's myriad plant and animal species. As this book demonstrates ... when we kill these other species, either directly or by destroying their habitats, we kill a bit of ourselves."--Dorion Sagan, The New York Times Book Review (review of the first edition)
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" The essays are united by the authors' passionate commitment to preserving the natural diversity, both genetic and esthetic, of the earth's myriad plant and animal species. As this book demonstrates ... when we kill these other species, either directly or by destroying their habitats, we kill a bit of ourselves." -- Dorion Sagan, The New York Times Book Review (review of the first edition)
& quot; The essays are united by the authors' passionate commitment to preserving the natural diversity, both genetic and esthetic, of the earth's myriad plant and animal species. As this book demonstrates ... when we kill these other species, either directly or by destroying their habitats, we kill a bit of ourselves.& quot; -- Dorion Sagan, The New York Times Book Review (review of the first edition)
"The essays are united by the authors' passionate commitment to preserving the natural diversity, both genetic and esthetic, of the earth's myriad plant and animal species. As this book demonstrates ... when we kill these other species, either directly or by destroying their habitats, we kill a bit of ourselves."--Dorion Sagan, The New York Times Book Review (review of the first edition)
This was one of the first books on biodiversity and species loss, and today there is a new and more widespread awareness of what some consider to be the great tragedy of our time-organisms that took many thousands or even millions of years to evolve are disappearing permanently because of human activity.
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- PublisherMIT Press
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0262610531
- ISBN 13 9780262610537
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages224
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