Reviews for The Mississippi River

The average rating for The Mississippi River based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-03-11 00:00:00 Ladd Biro The last two chapters of this book are the most fascinating. Eldredge lays out in simple and effective terms how humans aren't above nature, but are of it, and that extinction is the end result of every species. Our survival depends on understanding how we fit into nature, and every species that becomes extinct from our doing also threatens us. He says the canary is sick, nearly dead, and our pillaging of the ecosystem is bringing us to a crisis point. This book was published in 1991, 24 years ago.

Review # 2 was written on 2009-08-16 00:00:00 Gary Demasi Niles Eldredge was the co-creator (with Stephen Jay Gould) of the theory of punctuated equilibrium in evolution. In this book he compares the present loss of species with earlier mass extinctions, and points out that the fact that life on Earth survived the previous extinctions (and recovered) doesn't mean that it'll be easy or comfortable to those in the extinction periods.