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American Megafaunal Extinctions at the End of the Pleistocene
The volume contains summaries of facts, theories, and unsolved problems pertaining to the unexplained extinction of dozens of genera of mostly large terrestrial mammals, which occurred ca. 13,000 calendar years ago in North America and about 1,000 years later in South America. Another equally myster...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2009.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2009. |
| Colección: | Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology,
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto Completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
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- Sudden Deaths: The Chronology of Terminal Pleistocene Megafaunal Extinction
- Estimates of Clovis-Era Megafaunal Populations and Their Extinction Risks
- Paleobiology and Extinction of Proboscideans in the Great Lakes Region of North America
- Human Prey Choice in the Late Pleistocene and Its Relation to Megafaunal Extinctions
- Ancient DNA and the Genetic Consequences of Late Pleistocene Extinctions
- Did Humans Cause the Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene Mammalian Extinctions in South America in a Context of Shrinking Open Areas?
- The Elusive Evidence: The Archeological Record of the South American Extinct Megafauna
- Insulae infortunatae: Establishing a Chronology for Late Quaternary Mammal Extinctions in the West Indies
- Afterword, and Thoughts About the Future Literature.