Man's grim record of crimes against nature
The Sixth Extinction. An Unnatural History. By Elizabeth Kolbert. Bloomsbury, €16.35. Reviewed by Brendan Daly.
The Sixth Extinction
**An Unnatural History**
**By** Elizabeth Kolbert
**Bloomsbury,** €16.35
**Reviewed by** Brendan Daly
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In natural history, the Big Five' is an innocuous title for a category of catastrophe. It refers to five cataclysmic events over the last 500 million years that caused mass extinction. The best known obliterated the dinosaurs after a huge asteroid collided with the Earth. But the Big Five' narrative is about to change to accommodate a ...