The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

I liked all the big-picture talk, how the Anthropocene is (has been) causing a new mass extinction event, but my attention kept dropping at the stories of all the specific biological examples of endangered species. This is still a good book, and important, I just feel I already got the important parts from a chapter in Yuval Noah Harari's [b:Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 23692271 Sapiens A Brief History of Humankind Yuval Noah Harari https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1420585954s/23692271.jpg 18962767].While I am here:1. End Ordovician extinction, 444 million years ago, 86% of species lost2. Late Devonian extinction, 375 million years ago, 75% of species lost3. End Permian extinction, 251 million years ago, 96% of species lost4. End Triassic extinction, 200 million years ago, 80% of species lost5. End Cretaceous extinction, 66 million years ago, 76% of all species lost [source]