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Award-winning poet Challenger (Galatea) imbues this ambitious meditation with the courage of an explorer, the scientific curiosity of a botanist and a geologist, the excited digging of an archeologist ...

Melanie Challenger researches and writes on natural and environmental history, and the relationship of humans to the living world. She is the author of How to Be Animal: A New History of What it Means ...

In her nonfiction debut, On Extinction: How We Became Estranged from Nature, poet Melanie Challenger meditates on evolutionary changes marked by extinctions, and asks what's next for the human race.

"My hope is that a more formal recognition of animal dignity would prohibit debasing objectification and reset our relations with other species." -Melanie Challenger People often say something like, ...

Since Darwin published his landmark work on natural selection, we’ve understood that we’re animals. But that doesn’t mean we really believe it. Effective gene editing programs rely on a platform-based ...

Poet and linguist Melanie Challenger tours half the the world in On Extinction: How we became estranged from nature “THIS consideration must surely tell us that all living things were not made ...

Erudite and impassioned, Melanie Challenger's On Extinction is a ruminative examination on the way our 21st century world is changing quickly. Part travel book, part philosophical treatise, and ...