The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

Elizabeth Kolbert

One of the many unintended consequences of the Anthropocene has been the pruning of our own family tree. Having cut down our sister species -the Neanderthals and the Denisovans many generations ago- we are now working on our first and second cousins. By the time we're done, it's quite possible that there would be among the great apes not a single representative left, except that is, for us.

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