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The Anthropocene:
''edited by'' [http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/Extinction/bio Claire Colebrook]
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Will Steffen, ‘The Anthropocene, global change and sleeping giants: where on Earth are we going?’
== [http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/Extinction/Introduction '''Introduction: Framing the End of the Species''']  ==
Carbon Balance and Management 1.3 (2006): 1-3.
Scientific events have their own consistency and it is often a mistake for humanities scholars to reduce such complexities to ‘worldviews’ or the history of ideas. To pass from quantum uncertainty to postmodern literary styles reduces the disciplinary specificity of scientific discovery and functions, and risks presenting literature and culture as reflections or contexts for scientific facts. Yet it is also the case that certain scientific events do not occur as facts within history but rather open up a new experience and possibility of history, and a new way in which the very relation between history and science might be considered. When Darwin posited that the human species had a beginning within the history of life, this was not only a fact about ‘our’ history; it also opened up formal problems for the imagination: how could our understanding of the human and the humanities proceed with a sense of the processes of life beyond human time? ([http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/Extinction/Introduction more])
(Pub Med Central)
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Jan Zalasiewicz, Mark Williams, Alan Smith, Tiffany L Barry, Angela L Coe, Paul R Bown, Patrick Brenchley, David Cantrill, Andrew Gale, Philip Gibbard, F John Gregory, Mark W Hounslow, Andrew C Kerr, Paul Pearson, Robert Knox, John Powell, Colin Waters, John Marshall, Michael Oates, Peter Rawson, Philip Stone.
‘Are we now living in the Anthropocene?’
GSA Today (2008)
Volume: 18, Issue: 2, Publisher: Geological Society of America, 3300 Penrose Pl, Boulder, CO, 80301-1806, USA,, Pages: 4
http://www.geosociety.org/gsatoday/archive/18/2/pdf/i1052-5173-18-2-4.pdf


3.
== '''The Anthropocene'''  ==
Jan Zalasiewicz, Mark Williams, Richard Fortey, Alan Smith, Tiffany L. Barry, Angela L. Coe, Paul R. Bown, Peter F. Rawson, Andrew Gale, Philip Gibbard, F. John Gregory, Mark W. Hounslow, Andrew C. Kerr, Paul Pearson, Robert Knox, John Powell, Colin Waters, John Marshall, Michael Oates and Philip Stone
; Will Steffen: [http://www.cbmjournal.com/content/1/1/3 The Anthropocene, Global Change and Sleeping Giants: Where on Earth Are We Going?]
‘Stratigraphy of the Anthropocene.
; Jan Zalasiewicz ''et al''.: [http://www.geosociety.org/gsatoday/archive/18/2/pdf/i1052-5173-18-2-4.pdf Are We Now Living in the Anthropocene?]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A 13 March 2011 vol. 369 no. 1938 1036-1055
; Jan Zalasiewicz ''et al''.: [http://www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/services/downloadRegister/970105/Top_copy_Stratigraphy_of_the_Anthropocene_2_8_10.doc Stratigraphy of the Anthropocene]
doi: 10.1098/rsta.2010.0315
; Jan Zalasiewicz, Mark Williams and Will Steffen: [http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/es903118j The New World of the Anthropocene]
http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/369/1938/1036.full.pdf+html


4.
== '''Time and Discipline'''  ==
Jan Zalasiewicz, Mark Williams and Will Steffen.
; K. J. Willis: [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2311423/?tool=pubmed How Can a Knowledge of the Past Help to Conserve the Future? Biodiversity Conservation and the Relevance of Long-term Ecological Studies]
‘The New World of the Anthropocene.
; Valentí Rull: [http://www.benthamscience.com/open/toecolj/articles/V003/S10001TOECOLJ/1TOECOLJ.pdf Ecology and Palaeoecology: Two Approaches, One Objective]
Environ. Sci. Technol. 2010, 44, 2228–2231
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/es903118j
Time and Discipline
5.
K. J. Willis,
‘How can a Knowledge of the Past Help to Conserve the Future? Biodiversity conservation and the Relevance of Long-term Ecological Studies’
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 362.1478: 175-87.
6.
Valentí Rull,
‘Ecology and Palaeoecology: Two Approaches, One Objective.’
The Open Ecology Journal, (2010), 3: 1-5.
www.benthamscience.com/open/toecolj/articles/V003/S10001TOECOLJ/1TOECOLJ.pdf
Ecosystems and Biodiversity
7.
Jeremy B. Jackson,
‘Ecological Extinction and Evolution in the Brave New Ocean
Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. 105 (Supplement 1, August 2008): 11458-11465.


8.
== '''Ecosystems and Biodiversity'''  ==
Harold A. Mooney
; Jeremy B. Jackson: [http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2008/08/08/0802812105.full.pdf+html Ecological Extinction and Evolution in the Brave New Ocean]
‘The Ecosystem Service Chain and the Biological Diversity Crisis.’
; Harold A. Mooney: [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2842713/?tool=pubmed The Ecosystem Service Chain and the Biological Diversity Crisis]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 365 (1537): 31-39.
; Norman Myers and Andrew H. Knoll: [http://www.pnas.org/content/98/10/5389.full The Biotic Crisis and the Future of Evolution]
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.pmc/articles/PMC2842713/?tool=pubmed


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== '''Mass Extinction'''  ==
Norman Myers and Andrew H. Knoll
; S. A. Wooldridge: [http://www.biogeosciences-discuss.net/5/2401/2008/bgd-5-2401-2008.pdf Mass Extinctions Past and Present: A Unifying Hypothesis]
‘The Biotic Crisis and the Future of Evolution.’
doi: 10.1073/pnas.091092498
PNAS May 8, 2001 vol. 98 no. 10 5389-5392
http://www.pnas.org/content/98/10/5389.full
Mass Extinction:
10.
S.A. Wooldridge
‘Mass Extinctions Past and Present: A Unifying Hypothesis.’
Biogeosciences Discussions 5 (2008) 2401-2423.
www.biogeosciences-discuss.net/5/2401/2008
Comprehending Extinction:
11.
Robert. M. May
‘Ecological Science and Tomorrow’s World.’
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences v. 365 (1537): 41-47.
12.
Stephen Jay Gould
‘The Evolution of Life on Earth.’
Scientific American (October 1994)
http://brembs.net.gould.html
13.
Valenti Rull
‘Beyond Us: Is a World Without Humans Possible?’
EMBO Reports 10.11 (2009): 1191-1195
14.
Sarda Sahney and Michael J. Benton
‘Recovery from the Most Profound Mass Extinction of All Time’
Proceedings of the Royal Society B (2008) 275: 759-765.
Doi: 10.1098/rspb.2007.1370
15.
Jessica H. Whitesidea, Paul E. Olsenb, Timothy Eglinton, Michael E. Brookfield, and Raymond N. Sambrotto
‘Compound-specific Carbon Isotopes from Earth’s Largest Flood Basalt Eruptions directly Linked to the end-Triassic Mass Extinction.’
Proceedings of the National Academy of Science U S A. 2010 April 13; 107(15): 6721–6725. Published online 2010 March 22. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1001706107
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2872409/pdf/pnas.1001706107.pdf?tool=pmcentrez
16.
Richard J. Behl
‘Glacial Demise and Methane's Rise.’
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U S A. 2011 April 12; 108(15): 5925–5926. doi:  10.1073/pnas.1101146108
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3076871/?tool=pmcentrez


17.
== '''Comprehending Extinction'''  ==
Don N. Page
; Robert M. May: [http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/365/1537/41.full Ecological Science and Tomorrow’s World]
‘Possible Anthropic Support for a Decaying Universe: A Cosmic Doomsday Argument.
; Stephen Jay Gould: [http://brembs.net/gould.html The Evolution of Life on Earth]
http://arxiv.org/pdf/0907.4153v1.pdf?
; Valentí Rull: [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2775185/ Beyond Us: Is a World Without Humans Possible?]
; Sarda Sahney and Michael J. Benton: [http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/275/1636/759.full Recovery from the Most Profound Mass Extinction of All Time]
; Jessica H. Whiteside ''et al''.: [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2872409/pdf/pnas.1001706107.pdf?tool=pmcentrez Compound-specific Carbon Isotopes from Earth’s Largest Flood Basalt Eruptions Directly Linked to the end-Triassic Mass Extinction]
; Richard J. Behl: [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3076871/?tool=pmcentrez Glacial Demise and Methane's Rise]
; Don N. Page: [http://arxiv.org/pdf/0907.4153v1.pdf Possible Anthropic Support for a Decaying Universe: A Cosmic Doomsday Argument]


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ISBN: 978-1-60785-282-7

edited by Claire Colebrook

Introduction: Framing the End of the Species

Scientific events have their own consistency and it is often a mistake for humanities scholars to reduce such complexities to ‘worldviews’ or the history of ideas. To pass from quantum uncertainty to postmodern literary styles reduces the disciplinary specificity of scientific discovery and functions, and risks presenting literature and culture as reflections or contexts for scientific facts. Yet it is also the case that certain scientific events do not occur as facts within history but rather open up a new experience and possibility of history, and a new way in which the very relation between history and science might be considered. When Darwin posited that the human species had a beginning within the history of life, this was not only a fact about ‘our’ history; it also opened up formal problems for the imagination: how could our understanding of the human and the humanities proceed with a sense of the processes of life beyond human time? (more)

The Anthropocene

Will Steffen
The Anthropocene, Global Change and Sleeping Giants: Where on Earth Are We Going?
Jan Zalasiewicz et al.
Are We Now Living in the Anthropocene?
Jan Zalasiewicz et al.
Stratigraphy of the Anthropocene
Jan Zalasiewicz, Mark Williams and Will Steffen
The New World of the Anthropocene

Time and Discipline

K. J. Willis
How Can a Knowledge of the Past Help to Conserve the Future? Biodiversity Conservation and the Relevance of Long-term Ecological Studies
Valentí Rull
Ecology and Palaeoecology: Two Approaches, One Objective

Ecosystems and Biodiversity

Jeremy B. Jackson
Ecological Extinction and Evolution in the Brave New Ocean
Harold A. Mooney
The Ecosystem Service Chain and the Biological Diversity Crisis
Norman Myers and Andrew H. Knoll
The Biotic Crisis and the Future of Evolution

Mass Extinction

S. A. Wooldridge
Mass Extinctions Past and Present: A Unifying Hypothesis

Comprehending Extinction

Robert M. May
Ecological Science and Tomorrow’s World
Stephen Jay Gould
The Evolution of Life on Earth
Valentí Rull
Beyond Us: Is a World Without Humans Possible?
Sarda Sahney and Michael J. Benton
Recovery from the Most Profound Mass Extinction of All Time
Jessica H. Whiteside et al.
Compound-specific Carbon Isotopes from Earth’s Largest Flood Basalt Eruptions Directly Linked to the end-Triassic Mass Extinction
Richard J. Behl
Glacial Demise and Methane's Rise
Don N. Page
Possible Anthropic Support for a Decaying Universe: A Cosmic Doomsday Argument

Attributions

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