Why We’re in the Sixth Great Extinction and What It Means to Humanity

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• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  Biological Extinction

• Publication date

  2019-07-31

• Fields of study

  Biology, Geography, Philosophy, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1017/9781108668675.012
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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