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Chronicling five times in the history of the earth in which more than half of all living species disappeared in a geological instant, a geological study states that we are on the brink of a sixth mass extinction and presents supporting evidence. Reprint. NYT.
First Sentence
NO ONE WAS MORE SURPRISED than I was when, one April afternoon in 1989, a colleague burst into my office at the museum, in Nairobi, and exclaimed excitedly, "Congratulations!"
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- Roger Lewin (Author)
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