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The Diversity of Life, by Edward O. Wilson (Belknap, 424 pp., $29.95)

THE WORLD has been awash in apocalyptic prophecies for the past quarter-century. Now comes the latest prediction of doom— a man-made “extinction spasm” in which the earth in the next few decades could lose forever as much as a quarter of its plant and animal species. That alarming forecast is made by the eminent Harvard biologist Edward O. Wilson, in this passionate and gracefully written book.

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The Diversity of Life, by Edward O. Wilson (Belknap, 424 pp., $29.95)

THE WORLD has been awash in apocalyptic prophecies for the past quarter-century. Now comes the latest prediction of doom— a man-made “extinction spasm” in which the earth in the next few decades could lose forever as much as a quarter of its plant and animal species. That alarming forecast is made by the eminent Harvard biologist Edward O. Wilson, in this passionate and gracefully written book.