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

Resumen del libro

Over the past decade has come a revolution in our understanding of global apocalypses. Armed with new technology, scientists have dived into deep time to examine our planet's near-death experiences. The bad news is that they look eerily like our future.

Take a wild ride through the crime scenes, from South Africa to the New York Palisades. Meet the obsessive, off-kilter personalities using cutting-edge forensic tools to piece together the weird and wonderful clues hiding in the fossil record - dragonflies the size of seagulls and fishes with guillotines for mouths. A rip-roaring chronicle and a cautionary tale, The Ends of the World reveals how these five near extinctions gave rise to our modern world - we've never seen so clearly what Armageddon looks like.

Biografía del autor

Peter Brannen es un galardonado periodista científico y colabora habitualmente con el medio The Atlantic. Ha escrito para el New York Times, el Washington Post, Wired, Aeon, Boston Globe, Slate y The Guardian, entre otras publicaciones. Graduado de Boston College, en 2015 fue periodista residente en el Centro Nacional de Síntesis Evolutiva de la Universidad de Duke y en 2011 fue becario de Periodismo de Ciencias Oceánicas de la Institución Oceanográfica Woods Hole. Este es su primer libro.