Inheritors of the Earth how nature is thriving in an age of extinction
It is accepted wisdom today that human beings have irrevocably damaged the natural world. Yet what if this narrative obscures a more hopeful truth? In "Inheritors of the Earth", renowned ecologist and environmentalist Chris D. Thomas overturns the accepted story, revealing how nature is fighting bac...
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New York, NY :
Public Affairs,
[2017]
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| Edition: | First United States edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Opportunity. Prologue : gains and losses
- Biogenesis
- Part II. New Pangea. Prelude
- Fall and rise
- Never had it so good
- Steaming ahead
- Pangea reunited
- Part III. Genesis six. Prelude
- Heirs to the world
- Evolution never gives up
- The Pangean archipelago
- Hybrid
- Part IV. Anthropocene Park. Prelude
- The new natural
- Noah's Earth
- Epilogue : one million years AD.
