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Nature 450, 349 (15 November 2007) | doi:10.1038/450349a; Published online 14 November 2007
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A sixth mass extinction?
Chris D. Thomas1
Abstract
Past species losses have much to teach us about current and future declines due to human activity.
BOOK REVIEWED-Terra: Our 100-Million-Year-Old Ecosystem — and the Threats that Now Put it at Risk
by Michael Novacek
Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 2007. 480 pp. $27
This year the baiji river dolphin (Lipotes vexillifer), a victim of the pollution and boat traffic of China's Yangtze river, was added to the list of creatures on the verge of extinction. Is this part of the sixth mass extinction in 450 million years, or does the recent spate of losses caused by humans represent a blip in the history of life on Earth?
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