Author: Antony J. SutcliffePublisher:
ISBN: 9780674637788
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
On the Track of Ice Age Mammals
Author: Antony J. SutcliffePublisher:
ISBN: 9780674637788
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
On the Track of Ice Age Mammals
Author: Antony John SutcliffePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
End of the Megafauna: The Fate of the World's Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals
Author: Ross D E MacPheePublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393249301
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The fascinating lives and puzzling demise of some of the largest animals on earth. Until a few thousand years ago, creatures that could have been from a sci-fi thriller—including gorilla-sized lemurs, 500-pound birds, and crocodiles that weighed a ton or more—roamed the earth. These great beasts, or “megafauna,” lived on every habitable continent and on many islands. With a handful of exceptions, all are now gone. What caused the disappearance of these prehistoric behemoths? No one event can be pinpointed as a specific cause, but several factors may have played a role. Paleomammalogist Ross D. E. MacPhee explores them all, examining the leading extinction theories, weighing the evidence, and presenting his own conclusions. He shows how theories of human overhunting and catastrophic climate change fail to account for critical features of these extinctions, and how new thinking is needed to elucidate these mysterious losses. Along the way, we learn how time is determined in earth history; how DNA is used to explain the genomics and phylogenetic history of megafauna—and how synthetic biology and genetic engineering may be able to reintroduce these giants of the past. Until then, gorgeous four-color illustrations by Peter Schouten re-create these megabeasts here in vivid detail.
Buddy Davis' Cool Critters of the Ice Age
Author: Buddy DavisPublisher: New Leaf Publishing Group
ISBN: 1614584354
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
An exciting Ice Age animal exploration led by popular adventurer Buddy Davis! Discover elk with antlers over 12 feet long, rhino-like animals that ate plants, “monster birds” that called North & South America home, and more! Learn about glaciers, land bridges, how much of the world was covered in ice! Read about how and why the Ice Age happened, and what the Bible reveals!
Frozen Fauna of the Mammoth Steppe
Author: R. Dale GuthriePublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226311236
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
This account of the discovery and examination of a mummified extinct steppe bison in loess deposits of Pleistocene age in interior Alaska near Fairbanks, gives a picture of bison evolutionary history and ecology on the 'Mammoth Steppe'.
The Argonautika
Author: Apollonios RhodiosPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520253933
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
"Green turns his formidable classical learning and his finely nuanced sense of English verse to bear on the challenge of restoring Apollonios to his true place—on a par with the best modern poetic versions of Homer and Virgil."—Robert Fagles
Animals as Domesticates
Author: Juliet Clutton-BrockPublisher: MSU Press
ISBN: 1609173147
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
Drawing on the latest research in archaeozoology, archaeology, and molecular biology, Animals as Domesticates traces the history of the domestication of animals around the world. From the llamas of South America and the turkeys of North America, to the cattle of India and the Australian dingo, this fascinating book explores the history of the complex relationships between humans and their domestic animals. With expert insight into the biological and cultural processes of domestication, Clutton-Brock suggests how the human instinct for nurturing may have transformed relationships between predator and prey, and she explains how animals have become companions, livestock, and laborers. The changing face of domestication is traced from the spread of the earliest livestock around the Neolithic Old World through ancient Egypt, the Greek and Roman empires, South East Asia, and up to the modern industrial age.
Timeline Science: The Ice Age
Author: Emily Rose OachsPublisher: Silver Dolphin Books
ISBN: 1626869464
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Travel back in time to the ice age! Saber-toothed cats, woolly mammoths, and more! Timeline Science: The Ice Age features all the Ice Age favorites as it chronicles Earth's glacial periods and the animals that lived in those icy conditions. From the giants of the Ice Age to cave-dwelling mammals, this kit traverses glacial and interglacial periods, recent discoveries, and future ice ages. After reading each animal profile, kids can unfold the timeline poster, use the included stickers, and build their very own woolly mammoth skeleton!
Settling the Earth
Author: Clive GamblePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107729076
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
In this worldwide survey, Clive Gamble explores the evolution of the human imagination, without which we would not have become a global species. He sets out to determine the cognitive and social basis for our imaginative capacity and traces the evidence back into deep human history. He argues that it was the imaginative ability to 'go beyond' and to create societies where people lived apart yet stayed in touch that made us such effective world settlers. To make his case Gamble brings together information from a wide range of disciplines: psychology, cognitive science, archaeology, palaeoanthropology, archaeogenetics, geography, quaternary science and anthropology. He presents a novel deep history that combines the archaeological evidence for fossil hominins with the selective forces of Pleistocene climate change, engages with the archaeogeneticists' models for population dispersal and displacement, and ends with the Europeans' rediscovery of the deep history settlement of the Earth.
Human Impact On The Environment
Author: Judith E. JacobsenPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429715579
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
This book explores the way in which human culture and technology have altered the environment through time. The contributors, drawn from a wide variety of disciplines, including anthropology, biology, history, physics and atmospheric science, explore the relationship between humans and the environment as an ongoing process, not just as a recent art