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Elizabeth Kolbert · IBDB

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Elizabeth Kolbert

Slowking, GFDL 1.2

8.5out of 10

from 2 member ratings

Born / Died: Born 1961
Writes: Science
Here: One book

American journalist, author, and visiting fellow at Williams College.

Biography from Open Library, CC BY-SA

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The Sixth Extinction
2014
8.5out of 10from 2 ratings

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The most recent reviews of Elizabeth Kolbert's books, newest first.

The Sixth Extinction reviewed by @mossandink
8 out of 10
The ammonites got me. Not the argument, the ammonites.
The Sixth Extinction@mossandink15 Jan 2026
The Sixth Extinction reviewed by @dr_bramble
9 out of 10
Species walking uphill at a measurable rate per decade until they run out of mountain; the Andean transect chapter is the reason I keep buying copies of this. Grim, careful, genuinely first hand rather than assembled out of other books.
The Sixth Extinction@dr_bramble17 Dec 2025