nate in chapter 3 the sixth extinction an unnatural history
In Chapter 3, Kolbert discusses the great auk, a large flightless bird that went extinct as a result of being over-hunted by humans. Then, in Chapter 4, Kolbert writes about the Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction event and the controversy surrounding its initial explanation. In that extinction event, according to Walter Alvarez, many species were wiped off […]
