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Nov. 16, 2007
Michael Novacek and 'Terra'
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In this segment, Ira talks with Michael Novacek, paleontologist and curator at the American Museum of Natural History, about the history of ecosystems on the planet Earth, and current risks to our environment. In his new book 'Terra,' Novacek combines evolutionary biology, paleontology, and modern environmental science to look at how the natural world as we know it came to be, and the human factors that could put it at risk. |
Produced by Annette Heist, Senior Producer
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Michael Novacek
Author, "Terra: Our 100-Million-Year-Old Ecosystem--and the Threats That
Now Put it at Risk" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007)
Provost of Science; Senior Vice President
American Museum of Natural History
New York, New York
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