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Over the past half billion years, there have been five mass extinctions of life on earth. Scientists around the world now monitor the sixth extinction, predicted to be the largest since the asteroid collision that killed dinosaurs. Elizabeth Kolbert combined live coverage of the field, history of ideas, and the work of geologists, botanists, and marine biologists to tell the story of a dozen species-including the Panama golden frog and the sumatran rhinoceros-some of which were destroyed, others were almost extinct. The sixth extinction could be mankind 's longest - lasting legacy, and Elizabeth Kolbert' s book compels us to rethink the basic question: What it means to be human.