Catastrophes and Lesser Calamities: The Causes of Mass Extinctions

Extinction: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago by Douglas H. Erwin

Extinction: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago

Douglas H. Erwin

When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time by Michael J. Benton

When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time

Michael J. Benton

The emerald planet: how plants changed Earth's history by David Beerling

The emerald planet: how plants changed Earth's history

David Beerling

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

Elizabeth Kolbert

Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth by Andrew H. Knoll

Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth

Andrew H. Knoll

Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould

Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

Stephen Jay Gould

T. Rex and the Crater of Doom by Walter Alvarez

T. Rex and the Crater of Doom

Walter Alvarez

Evolutionary Catastrophes: The Science of Mass Extinction by Vincent Courtillot

Evolutionary Catastrophes: The Science of Mass Extinction

Vincent Courtillot

Trilobite! Eyewitness to Evolution by Richard Fortey

Trilobite! Eyewitness to Evolution

Richard Fortey

Supercontinent: Ten Billion Years in the Life of Our Planet by Ted Nield

Supercontinent: Ten Billion Years in the Life of Our Planet

Ted Nield

The Crucible of Creation: The Burgess Shale and the Rise of Animals by Simon Conway-Morris

The Crucible of Creation: The Burgess Shale and the Rise of Animals

Simon Conway-Morris

The Dinosaur Heresies: New Theories Unlocking the Mystery of the Dinosaurs and Their Extinction by Robert T. Bakker

The Dinosaur Heresies: New Theories Unlocking the Mystery of the Dinosaurs and Their Extinction

Robert T. Bakker

The Book of Life: An Illustrated History of the Evolution of Life on Earth by Stephen Jay Gould

The Book of Life: An Illustrated History of the Evolution of Life on Earth

Stephen Jay Gould

Frozen Earth: The Once and Future Story of Ice Ages by Doug Macdougall

Frozen Earth: The Once and Future Story of Ice Ages

Doug Macdougall

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World by Stephen L. Brusatte

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World

Stephen L. Brusatte

The Call of Distant Mammoths: Why the Ice Age Mammals Disappeared by Peter D. Ward

The Call of Distant Mammoths: Why the Ice Age Mammals Disappeared

Peter D. Ward

Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth by Richard A. Fortey

Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth

Richard A. Fortey

Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin

Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

Neil Shubin

Snowball Earth: The Story of the Great Global Catastrophe That Spawned Life as We Know It by Gabrielle Walker

Snowball Earth: The Story of the Great Global Catastrophe That Spawned Life as We Know It

Gabrielle Walker

Vanished Ocean: How Tethys Reshaped the World by Dorrik Stow

Vanished Ocean: How Tethys Reshaped the World

Dorrik Stow

A Short History of Planet Earth: Mountains, Mammals, Fire, and Ice (Wiley Popular Scienc) by Doug Macdougall

A Short History of Planet Earth: Mountains, Mammals, Fire, and Ice (Wiley Popular Scienc)

Doug Macdougall

Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds, and Earth's Ancient Atmosphere by Peter Ward

Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds, and Earth's Ancient Atmosphere

Peter Ward

Darwin's Lost World: The Hidden History of Animal Life by Martin Brasier

Darwin's Lost World: The Hidden History of Animal Life

Martin Brasier

Extinction and Evolution: What Fossils Reveal About the History of Life by Niles Eldredge

Extinction and Evolution: What Fossils Reveal About the History of Life

Niles Eldredge

The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future by Richard B. Alley

The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future

Richard B. Alley

Extinction: Bad Genes or Bad Luck? by David M. Raup

Extinction: Bad Genes or Bad Luck?

David M. Raup

The Worst of Times: How Life on Earth Survived Eighty Million Years of Extinctions by Paul B. Wignall

The Worst of Times: How Life on Earth Survived Eighty Million Years of Extinctions

Paul B. Wignall

Here Be Dragons: How the Study of Animal and Plant Distributions Revolutionized Our Views of Life and Earth by Dennis McCarthy

Here Be Dragons: How the Study of Animal and Plant Distributions Revolutionized Our Views of Life and Earth

Dennis McCarthy

The Mountains of Saint Francis: Discovering the Geologic Events That Shaped Our Earth (St. Francis) by Walter Alvarez

The Mountains of Saint Francis: Discovering the Geologic Events That Shaped Our Earth (St. Francis)

Walter Alvarez

Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms: The Story of the Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind by Richard Fortey

Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms: The Story of the Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind

Richard Fortey

Gorgon: Paleontology, Obsession, and the Greatest Catastrophe in Earth's History by Peter Ward

Gorgon: Paleontology, Obsession, and the Greatest Catastrophe in Earth's History

Peter Ward

A Guide to the End of the World: Everything You Never Wanted to Know by Bill McGuire

A Guide to the End of the World: Everything You Never Wanted to Know

Bill McGuire

The Man Who Found Time: James Hutton And The Discovery Of Earth's Antiquity by Jack Repcheck

The Man Who Found Time: James Hutton And The Discovery Of Earth's Antiquity

Jack Repcheck

Dinosaurs: A Concise Natural History by David E. Fastovsky

Dinosaurs: A Concise Natural History

David E. Fastovsky

The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions by Peter Brannen

The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions

Peter Brannen

The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life by Richard Dawkins

The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life

Richard Dawkins

Cradle of Life: The Discovery of Earth's Earliest Fossils by J. William Schopf

Cradle of Life: The Discovery of Earth's Earliest Fossils

J. William Schopf

The Great Dinosaur Extinction Controversy (Helix Books) by Charles Officer

The Great Dinosaur Extinction Controversy (Helix Books)

Charles Officer

Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould

Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History

Stephen Jay Gould

The Medea Hypothesis: Is Life on Earth Ultimately Self-Destructive? by Peter Ward

The Medea Hypothesis: Is Life on Earth Ultimately Self-Destructive?

Peter Ward

The planet in a pebble: a journey into Earth's deep history by Jan Zalasiewicz

The planet in a pebble: a journey into Earth's deep history

Jan Zalasiewicz

Extinction: Evolution and the End of Man by Michael Boulter

Extinction: Evolution and the End of Man

Michael Boulter

Greenhouse of the Dinosaurs: Evolution, Extinction, and the Future of Our Planet by Donald R. Prothero

Greenhouse of the Dinosaurs: Evolution, Extinction, and the Future of Our Planet

Donald R. Prothero

Night Comes to the Cretaceous by James Lawrence Powell

Night Comes to the Cretaceous

James Lawrence Powell

Earth: An Intimate History by Richard Fortey

Earth: An Intimate History

Richard Fortey

The Earth After Us: What Legacy Will Humans Leave in the Rocks? by Jan Zalasiewicz

The Earth After Us: What Legacy Will Humans Leave in the Rocks?

Jan Zalasiewicz

On the Origin of Phyla by James W. Valentine

On the Origin of Phyla

James W. Valentine

The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization by Brian Fagan

The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization

Brian Fagan

The World Without Us by Alan Weisman

The World Without Us

Alan Weisman

Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World by Nick Lane

Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World

Nick Lane

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