Extinctions: How Life Survives, Adapts and Evolves

A journey through the great mass extinction events that have shaped our Earth.

Extinctions lays out the latest scientific understanding of mass extinction on our planet. Cutting-­edge techniques across biology, chemistry, physics, and geology have transformed our understanding of the deep past, including the discovery of a previously unknown mass extinction. This compelling evidence, revealing a series of environmental crises resulting in the near collapse of life on Earth, illuminates our c...