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ISBN10: 0226824039, ISBN13: 9780226824031, [publisher: The University of Chicago Press] Softcover Paperback. Featuring numerous illustrations, this book explores the many lessons to be learned from Pleistocene megafauna, including the role of humans in their extinction, their disappearance as the start of the Sixth Extinction, and what they might teach us about contemporary conservation crises. Long after the extinction of dinosaurs, when humans were still in the Stone Age, woolly rhinos, mammoths, mastodons, sabertooth cats, giant ground sloths, and many other spectacular large animals that are no longer with us roamed the Earth. These animals are regarded as Pleistocene megafauna, named for the geological era in which they livedalso known as the Ice Age. In Vanished Giants: The Lost World of the Ice Age, paleontologist Anthony J. Stuart explores the lives and environments of these animals, moving between six continents and several key islands. Stuart examines the animals themselves via what weve learned from fossil remains, and he describes the landscapes, climates, vegetation, ecological interactions, and other aspects of the animals existence. Illustrated throughout, Vanished Giants also offers a picture of the world as it was tens of thousands of years ago when these giants still existed. Unlike the case of the dinosaurs, there was no asteroid strike to blame for the end of their world. Instead, it appears that the giants of the Ice Age were driven to ...
ISBN10: 0226824039, ISBN13: 9780226824031, [publisher: The University of Chicago Press] Softcover Paperback. Featuring numerous illustrations, this book explores the many lessons to be learned from Pleistocene megafauna, including the role of humans in their extinction, their disappearance as the start of the Sixth Extinction, and what they might teach us about contemporary conservation crises. Long after the extinction of dinosaurs, when humans were still in the Stone Age, woolly rhinos, mammoths, mastodons, sabertooth cats, giant ground sloths, and many other spectacular large animals that are no longer with us roamed the Earth. These animals are regarded as Pleistocene megafauna, named for the geological era in which they livedalso known as the Ice Age. In Vanished Giants: The Lost World of the Ice Age, paleontologist Anthony J. Stuart explores the lives and environments of these animals, moving between six continents and several key islands. Stuart examines the animals themselves via what weve learned from fossil remains, and he describes the landscapes, climates, vegetation, ecological interactions, and other aspects of the animals existence. Illustrated throughout, Vanished Giants also offers a picture of the world as it was tens of thousands of years ago when these giants still existed. Unlike the case of the dinosaurs, there was no asteroid strike to blame for the end of their world. Instead, it appears that the giants of the Ice Age were driven to ...
ISBN10: 0226824039, ISBN13: 9780226824031, [publisher: The University of Chicago Press] Softcover Paperback. Featuring numerous illustrations, this book explores the many lessons to be learned from Pleistocene megafauna, including the role of humans in their extinction, their disappearance as the start of the Sixth Extinction, and what they might teach us about contemporary conservation crises. Long after the extinction of dinosaurs, when humans were still in the Stone Age, woolly rhinos, mammoths, mastodons, sabertooth cats, giant ground sloths, and many other spectacular large animals that are no longer with us roamed the Earth. These animals are regarded as Pleistocene megafauna, named for the geological era in which they livedalso known as the Ice Age. In Vanished Giants: The Lost World of the Ice Age, paleontologist Anthony J. Stuart explores the lives and environments of these animals, moving between six continents and several key islands. Stuart examines the animals themselves via what weve learned from fossil remains, and he describes the landscapes, climates, vegetation, ecological interactions, and other aspects of the animals existence. Illustrated throughout, Vanished Giants also offers a picture of the world as it was tens of thousands of years ago when these giants still existed. Unlike the case of the dinosaurs, there was no asteroid strike to blame for the end of their world. Instead, it appears that the giants of the Ice Age were driven to ...
ISBN10: 0226824039, ISBN13: 9780226824031, [publisher: University of Chicago Press 2022-08-30, Chicago] Softcover Language: ENG [London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2022]
ISBN10: 0226824039, ISBN13: 9780226824031, [publisher: University of Chicago Press 2022-08-30, Chicago] Softcover Language: ENG [London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2022]
ISBN10: 0226824039, ISBN13: 9780226824031, [publisher: University Of Chicago Pr. Okt 2022] Softcover Neuware -Featuring numerous illustrations, this book explores the many lessons to be learned from Pleistocene megafauna, including the role of humans in their extinction, their disappearance at the start of the Sixth Extinction, and what they might teach us about contemporary conservation crises. [Zwiesel, Germany] [Publication Year: 2022]
ISBN10: 0226824039, ISBN13: 9780226824031, [publisher: University Of Chicago Pr. Okt 2022] Softcover Neuware -Featuring numerous illustrations, this book explores the many lessons to be learned from Pleistocene megafauna, including the role of humans in their extinction, their disappearance at the start of the Sixth Extinction, and what they might teach us about contemporary conservation crises. 310 pp. Englisch [Bergisch Gladbach, Germany] [Publication Year: 2022]
ISBN10: 0226824039, ISBN13: 9780226824031, [publisher: University Of Chicago Pr. Okt 2022] Softcover Neuware -Featuring numerous illustrations, this book explores the many lessons to be learned from Pleistocene megafauna, including the role of humans in their extinction, their disappearance at the start of the Sixth Extinction, and what they might teach us about contemporary conservation crises. 310 pp. Englisch [Bergisch Gladbach, Germany] [Publication Year: 2022]
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