The Ends of the World

Award-winning science journalist Peter Brannen takes readers on a wild ride through the planet's five mass extinctions, in the process offering us a glimpse of our increasingly dangerous future. Many scientists now believe that the climate shifts of the twenty-first century have analogs in these five extinctions. Using the visible clues left behind in the fossil record, The Ends of the World takes us inside “scenes of the crime,” from South Africa to the New York Palisades, to tell each extinction's story.