September 2019
Intermediate to advanced
256 pages
6h 14m
English
You’ve seen the “hockey sticks” in every book on change. Whether they represent population growth, microchip density driven by Moore’s Law, or the shrinking of polar glacial ice, hockey stick curves indicate the accelerating pace of change. But big change events have been around for a long time. Less known than the extinction event surrounding the disappearance of the dinosaurs was the more catastrophic late Permian event, 225 million years ago, when 96 percent of all living species vanished from earth.1 Hundreds of species, many superbly honed as the fittest in their environment, died in the Permian extinction. Some, barely surviving in small Permian ecological niches, accidentally happened ...
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