Vanishing Life: The Mystery of Mass Extinctions

By Jeff Hecht

Book Overview

From the author of Optics and Shifting Shores comes a detailed and mesmerizing look into the mystery of mass extinctions.

Vanishing Life takes readers into the fascinating phenomenon of mass extinction as Jeff Hecht bust myths with shocking facts in this spellbinding book.

In clear and lucid style, Hecht explores the geological evidence of extinction and its interpretation, the evolution of species, fossilization, and the theories by which science attempts to explain various "dyings."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 141699422X
• ISBN13: 9781416994220
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.5" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher