The World Without Us

Wills, Edwin, 199–200

Wilson, E. O., 129, 189, 190

Wilson, Michael, 50–51

windows

deterioration of, 17

Windscale (U.K.)

nuclear accidents at, 208

wood

deterioration of, 17, 18

woolly mammoths, 63, 83

World Population Program, 272

Wrangel Island (Arctic Ocean), 62–63

Wrangham, Richard, 46

Wright, Ronald, 165

X-rays, 202–3

Yong-Un, Ma, 183–85, 188, 189

Zapara Indians, 1–3

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Weisman, Alan.

    The world without us / Alan Weisman.

        p. cm.

    Includes bibliographical references and index.

    ISBN-13: 978-0-312-34729-1

    ISBN-10: 0-312-34729-4

1. Nature—Effect of human beings on. 2. Material culture. 3. Human-plant relationships. 4. Human-animal relationships. I. Title.

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