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Books like The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction by David Quammen is about extinction, island biogeography, evolution. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Elizabeth Kolbert · Science
The Sixth Extinction is Elizabeth Kolbert's account of the mass extinction event currently underway — the sixth in Earth's history, and the first caused by a single species.
Read the summary → - The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
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The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
David Quammen · Science
The Tangled Tree is David Quammen's account of how molecular biology overturned the traditional picture of the tree of life — the branching diagram, familiar since Darwin, that represents the evolution of all living things from a common ancestor.
Read the summary → - Spillover
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David Quammen · Science
Spillover is David Quammen's exhaustive investigation into zoonotic disease — illness that jumps from animals to humans — and the ecological and evolutionary logic behind why such spillover events happen.
Read the summary → - Silent Spring
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Rachel Carson · Science
Silent Spring, published in 1962, is Rachel Carson's investigation of the effects of synthetic pesticides — particularly DDT and related organochlorines — on birds, fish, insects, and the broader ecological web.
Read the summary → - Guns, Germs, and Steel
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Jared Diamond · Science
Guns, Germs, and Steel is Jared Diamond's attempt to answer a question posed to him by a Papua New Guinean politician named Yali: why did Europeans end up with so much cargo — wealth, technology, power — while other peoples had comparatively little?
Read the summary → - A Brief History of Time
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Stephen Hawking · Science
A Brief History of Time is Stephen Hawking's attempt to explain the biggest questions in physics — where the universe came from, how it behaves, and where it might be going — to readers with no scientific training.
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