The End Of A Tragic Non Event The Seventh Extinction

This book focuses on extending the research of countless scientists in many areas and fields of physical and social sciences and Philosophy including but not limited to Cosmology, Astronomy, quantum mechanics, biology, physics, psychology and sociology. This extension centers around a moral solution to reality based on the facts supported by extensive research by scientists from essentially every field that this Universe is meaningless and purposeless, and that Homo sapiens can no longer just sit on this information but need to respond in some reasonable manner. Much of the research in stating the facts and concepts of what our Universe in reality represents is described in numerous well documented books by a brilliant scientist, Dr. Victor J. Stenger, whose life was spent educating the world to the realities of the Universe and how to best interpret those realities in a meaningful way to guide the human race out of ignorance into the light of understanding. This book also honors all those living and dead as well all those unfortunately to be born against their "wills" now and in the future. This in the same vein includes organisms that would by sundry definitions be classified as living entities and/or will exist in some forms as non-humans in the future, i.e., microbes, vertebrates, non-vertebrates, etc. who/which had no voice in being born or coming into existence.

This book focuses on extending the research of countless scientists in many areas and fields of physical and social sciences and Philosophy including but not limited to Cosmology, Astronomy, quantum mechanics, biology, physics, psychology and sociology. This extension centers around a moral solution to reality based on the facts supported by extensive research by scientists from essentially every field that this Universe is meaningless and purposeless, and that Homo sapiens can no longer just sit on this information but need to respond in some reasonable manner. Much of the research in stating the facts and concepts of what our Universe in reality represents is described in numerous well documented books by a brilliant scientist, Dr. Victor J. Stenger, whose life was spent educating the world to the realities of the Universe and how to best interpret those realities in a meaningful way to guide the human race out of ignorance into the light of understanding. This book also honors all those living and dead as well all those unfortunately to be born against their "wills" now and in the future. This in the same vein includes organisms that would by sundry definitions be classified as living entities and/or will exist in some forms as non-humans in the future, i.e., microbes, vertebrates, non-vertebrates, etc. who/which had no voice in being born or coming into existence.

ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 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.

An expanded and updated second edition comprehensively looks at macroevolution, integrating evolutionary processes at all levels to explain animal diversity.

The International Encyclopedia of Primatology represents the first comprehensive encyclopedic reference focusing on the behaviour, biology, ecology, evolution, genetics, and taxonomy of human and non-human primates. Represents the first comprehensive encyclopedic reference relating to primatology Features more than 450 entries covering topics ranging from the taxonomy, history, behaviour, ecology, captive management and diseases of primates to their use in research, cognition, conservation, and representations in literature Includes coverage of the basic scientific concepts that underlie each topic, along with the latest advances in the field Highly accessible to undergraduate and graduate students in primatology, anthropology, and the medical, biological and zoological sciences Essential reference for academics, researchers and commercial and conservation organizations This work is also available as an online resource at www.encyclopediaofprimatology.com

The conference was held in Snowbird, Utah, October 1988, as a sequel to the Conference on Large Body Impacts held in 1981, also in Snowbird. This volume contains 58 peer-reviewed papers, arranged into sections that cover the major themes of the conference: catastrophic impacts, volcanism, and mass mortality; geological signatures of impacts; environmental effects of impacts; patterns of mass mortality; volcanism and its effects; case histories of mass mortalities; and events and extinctions at the K/T boundary. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

This book focuses on extending the research of countless scientists in many areas and fields of physical and social sciences and Philosophy including but not limited to Cosmology, Astronomy, quantum mechanics, biology, physics, psychology and sociology. This extension centers around a moral solution to reality based on the facts supported by extensive research by scientists from essentially every field that this Universe is meaningless and purposeless, and that Homo sapiens can no longer just sit on this information but need to respond in some reasonable manner. Much of the research in stating the facts and concepts of what our Universe in reality represents is described in numerous well documented books by a brilliant scientist, Dr. Victor J. Stenger, whose life was spent educating the world to the realities of the Universe and how to best interpret those realities in a meaningful way to guide the human race out of ignorance into the light of understanding. This book also honors all those living and dead as well all those unfortunately to be born against their "wills" now and in the future. This in the same vein includes organisms that would by sundry definitions be classified as living entities and/or will exist in some forms as non-humans in the future, i.e., microbes, vertebrates, non-vertebrates, etc. who/which had no voice in being born or coming into existence.

The geological and palaeontological records of climate change and evolutionary events reflect Earth’s widely fluctuating climate systems. Past climates hold the clues to understanding future developments. In this context, research on linked climate, biodiversity and sea-level fluctuations of the Devonian contributes to the general knowledge of deep-time climate dynamics. A fruitful co-operation between the International Geoscience Programme IGCP 596 and the International Subcommission on Devonian Stratigraphy (SDS) addressed the complex succession of climate-linked Devonian global events of varying magnitude. The primary goal of IGCP 596 was to assess mid-Palaeozoic climate changes and their impact on marine and terrestrial biodiversity using an interdisciplinary approach. The focus of SDS includes a revision of the eustatic sea-level curve and the integration of refined chrono- and biostratigraphy with modern chemo-, magneto-, cyclo-, event- and sequence stratigraphy. This enabled the much improved dating and correlation of abiotic perturbations, evolutionary changes, organism and ecosystem ranges. Results by 37 authors are presented in 14 chapters, which cover the entire Devonian.