Penguin Random House South Africa
Categories: History, International Non-Fiction, Non-Fiction, Adult, New Releases
ISBN: 9780141988566
Published: October 2026
Imprint: Penguin
Page Extent: 496
Format: Paperback
RRP 440.00
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From an award-winning historian of race, science and empire, a path-breaking and poignant history of extinction as a scientific idea, an imperial legacy and a political choice
Anyone alive today is among a tiny fraction of the once living: over 90% of species that ever existed are now extinct. How did we come to think of ourselves as survivors in a world where species can vanish forever, or as capable of pushing our planet to the verge of a sixth mass extinction?
Extinction, Sadiah...