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Twilight of the mammoths : ice age extinctions and the rewilding of America /
Annotation As recently as 11,000 years ago--"near time" to geologists--mammoths, mastodons, gomphotheres, ground sloths, giant armadillos, native camels and horses, the dire wolf, and many other large mammals roamed North America. In what has become one of science's greatest riddles,...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2005.
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| Series: | Organisms and environments ;
8. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Discovering the last lost world : radiocarbon dating and Quaternary extinctions
- Overview of overkill
- Ground sloth dung and packrat middens : giant meat-eating bats?
- Ground sloths at home : cryptozoology, ground sloths, and Mapinguari National Park
- Grand Canyon suite : mountain goats, condors, equids, and mammoths
- Deadly syncopation
- Digging for the first people in America : high stakes at Tule Springs : tricks, hoaxes, and bad science
- Kill sites, sacred sites
- Models in collision : climatic change versus overkill
- Restoration : unexpected ramifications of ecological change
- Resurrection : the past is future.