SOUNDS WILD AND BROKEN: Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction

We live on a planet alive with song, music, and speech. Haskell explores how these wonders came to be. Starting with the origins of animal song and traversing the whole arc of Earth's history, the author illuminates and celebrates the emergence of the varied sounds of our world, and points to the perils that sonic diversity now faces.