• 灭绝:生物的生存力、适应力、进化力
  • Extinctions: How Life Survived, Adapted and Evolved
  • 作者:Michael J. Benton
  • 出版社代理人:Thames & Hudson(英国)
  • 出版时间:2023年9月
  • 页数:304页包括80张插图
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内容介绍



*作者Michael Benton是一名世界领先的古生物学家,是一名地理学以及古生物学的专家

*最新的科学研究发现带给我们更深度的历史知识,让我们发现以前不为人知的大规模灭绝。



‘If you want to know how extinctions happen and how the fossil record is relevant to 

understanding our current biodiversity crisis, read this delightful book about death and 

the resilience of life!’ - Steve Brusatte


我们需要了解地球上的灭绝才能了解我们现代的生物多样性危机。这是一本关于死亡以及生命的毅力的书!这本书穿越了塑造我们地球的大灭绝事件!



借鉴最新的研究,这本及时的书籍列出了当前对我们星球上的大规模灭绝的科学理解。最尖端技术的生物学、化学、物理学和地质学已经改变了我们对于深远的过去的知识,包括发现以前不为人知的大规模灭绝。这证据揭示了导致地球上生命几近崩溃的一系列环境危机,详尽地阐明了我们当前的困境。


从最古早的开始,Michael J. Benton 教授带我们穿越了“大五次大灭绝:the Late Ordovician,这使第一批动物的进化走上全新的路程;the late Devonian,显然是由全球变暖引起的;

灾难性的End-Permian,也被称为大灭绝,消灭了超过 90%地球上的所有生命;并且,新发现的恐龙时代以及Carnian Pluvial Event and the End-Cretaceous asteroid。作者研究了全球

变暖、酸雨、海洋酸化、火山喷发和陨石撞击目前已经对地球状况的影响、对全球生态的严重后果,以及生命如何反过来生存、适应和进化。


透过这本书,我们了解科学家如何开发革命性的新工具来发现法医细节中的古代灭绝事件和过程,他们如何模拟进化系统,以及他们如何提高我们对过去的了解。新的研究使我们能够将很久以前的动荡与我们当前的危机联系起来时代,人类世,对我们所有人都有重要的影响。


关于作者:

Michael Benton is professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology and head of the world leading Palaeobiology Research Group at the University of Bristol. He has written more than fifty books, including Dinosaurs: New Visions of a Lost World, The Dinosaurs Rediscovered and When Life Nearly Died, all published by Thames & Hudson. He was awarded an OBE for services to Palaeontology and community engagement.


Michael Benton is a palaeontologist who has made fundamental contributions to understanding the history of life, particularly concerning how biodiversity changes through time. He has led in integrating data from living and fossil organisms to generate phylogenies — solutions to the question of how major groups originated and diversified through time. This approach has revolutionised our understanding of major questions, including the relative roles of internal and external drivers on the history of life, whether diversity reaches saturation, the significance of mass extinctions, and how major clades radiate. A key theme is the Permo–Triassic mass extinction, the largest mass extinction of all time, which took place over 250 million years ago, where he investigates how life was able to recover from such a devastating event. Michael has written engaging books for children on the theme of dinosaurs, as well as a significant number of palaeontology textbooks for university students. He founded the MSc in Palaeobiology at Bristol in 1996, from which more than 450 students have graduated. He has supervised more than 70 PhD students.