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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27769089 Title: The Last extinction Author: Les Kaufman; Kenneth Mallory; New England Aquarium (Boston, Mass.) Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1993. ISBN/ISSN: 0262111799 9780262111799 0262610892 9780262610896 OCLC:27769089

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The Last extinction

Author:	Les Kaufman; Kenneth Mallory; New England Aquarium (Boston, Mass.)
Publisher:	Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1993.
Edition/Format:	Print book : English : 2nd edView all editions and formats
Summary:	today there is a new and more widespread awareness of what some consider to be the great tragedy of our time - organisms which took many thousands or even millions of years to evolve are being Read more...
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Subjects	Biodiversity conservation. Extinction (Biology) Nature -- Effect of human beings on. View all subjects
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Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Les Kaufman; Kenneth Mallory; New England Aquarium (Boston, Mass.) Find more information about:
ISBN:	0262111799 9780262111799 0262610892 9780262610896
OCLC Number:	27769089
Notes:	"Grew out of a public lecture series entitled 'Extinction: saving the sinking ark, ' held in Boston, Massachusetts, at the New England Aquarium during the fall of 1984"--Preface. "Published in association with the New England Aquarium."
Description:	xi, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:	Why the ark is sinking / Les Kaufman -- Mass extinctions: new answers, new questions / David Jablonski -- The Amazon: paradise lost? / James D. Williams and Ronald M. Nowak -- Riders of the last ark: the role of captive breeding in conservation strategies / Thomas J. Foose -- Sharing the hearth with whales / Norman Myers -- Life in the next millennium: who will be left in earth's community? / David Ehrenfeld -- Beyond the last extinction: environmental organizations for biodiversity.
Responsibility:	edited by Les Kaufman and Kenneth Mallory.

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