![]() ![]() Kolbert learned that, for most of the history of science, humans didn’t understand that some animals went extinct. Kolbert’s visit to Panama to study the golden frog inspired her to learn more about extinction and its place in the history of science. In Panama, for example, the population of golden frogs-once impossible to avoid-has dwindled to a few dozen. All over the world, different species are already going extinct, thanks to the declining amount of available undeveloped land, and the rising temperature. In The Sixth Extinction, Elizabeth Kolbert studies the relationship between human beings and the environment, and concludes that human behavior is on the verge of causing (or may have already caused) a mass-extinction-the sixth in the history of the planet. ![]()
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