Twilight of the Mammoths: Ice Age Extinctions and the Rewilding of America

10 best books like Twilight of the Mammoths: Ice Age Extinctions and the Rewilding of America (Paul S. Martin): The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples, Once & Future Giants: What Ice Age Extinctions Tell Us about the Fate of Earth's Largest Animals, The Earth After Us: What Legacy Will Humans Leave in the Rocks?, After the Ice Age: The Return of Life to Glaciated North America, Gorgon: The Monsters That Ruled the Planet Before Dinosaurs and How They Died in the Greatest Catastrophe in Earth's History, Science Comics: Dinosaurs: Fossils and Feathers, Deep Ancestry: Inside the Genographic Project, The Ghosts Of Evolution: Nonsensical Fruit, Missing Partners, and Other Ecological Anachronisms, Dragon Hunter: Roy Chapman Andrews & the Central Asiatic Expeditions, The World Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures

AuthorTim Flannery
ISBN0802138888
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Until about 13,000 years ago, North America was home to a menagerie of massive mammals. Mammoths, camels, and lions walked the ground that has become Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles and foraged on the marsh land now buried beneath Chicago's streets. Then, just as the first humans reached the Americas,...
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Geologist Jan Zalasiewicz takes the reader on a fascinating trip one hundred million years into the future--long after the human race becomes extinct--to explore what will remain of our brief but dramatic sojourn on Earth. He describes how geologists in the far future might piece together the history...
AuthorE.C. Pielou
ISBN0226668126
A world building book. Pielou's world is vast, complex, and filled with, sometimes surprising, concepts and images. One of those books to read in segments of time, between other reading materials. Quotes later ....

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AuthorPeter D. Ward
ISBN0143034715
If you're wondering how anyone could write an entire non-specialist text on a long-extinct suborder of theriodonts, the answer is not to be found here. Gorgonopsids feature minimally in this book, and the promised insert is mostly photos of people looking at rocks, not pictures of dinosaurs.

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ISBN1626721432
Every volume of Science Comics offers a complete introduction to a particular topic--dinosaurs, coral reefs, the solar system, volcanoes, bats, flying machines, and more. These gorgeously illustrated graphic novels offer wildly entertaining views of their subjects. Whether you're a fourth...
AuthorSpencer Wells
ISBN0792262158
Science tells us we're all related—one vast family sharing a common ancestor who lived in Africa 60,000 years ago. But countless questions remain about our great journey from the birthplace of Homo sapiens to the ends of the Earth. How did we end up where we are? When did we get there? Why do we display...
AuthorConnie Barlow
ISBN0465005527
A new vision is sweeping through ecological science: The dense web of dependencies that makes up an ecosystem has gained an added dimension-the dimension of time. Every field, forest, and park is full of living organisms adapted for relationships with creatures that are now extinct. In a vivid narrative,...
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ISBN0670890936


Description: Archaeology. Lavishly illustrated with original photographs from the expeditions---is a thrilling page---turner, an epic search for fossils cloaked in a sweeping historical narrative.

Opening: "I was born to be an explorer. There never was any decision to make....
AuthorDougal Dixon
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AuthorAnthony J. Martin
What if we woke up one morning all of the dinosaur bones in the world were gone? How would we know these iconic animals had a165-million year history on earth, and had adapted to all land-based environments from pole to pole? What clues would be left to discern not only their presence, but also to learn about...
AuthorJohn R. Horner
ISBN0894802208
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AuthorAndrew Parker
ISBN0465054382
About 550 million years ago, there was literally an explosion of life forms, as all the major animal groups suddenly and dramatically appeared. Although several books have been written about this surprising event, known as the Cambrian explosion, none has explained why it occurred. Indeed, none...
The Dragon Seekers: How An Extraordinary Circle Of Fossilists Discovered The Dinosaurs And Paved The Way For Darwin
AuthorChristopher McGowan
ISBN0738206733
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ISBN0140233881
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The Wolf: The Ecology and Behavior of an Endangered Species
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ISBN0816610266
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ISBN0691089779
Griffins, Centaurs, Cyclopes, and Giants--these fabulous creatures of classical mythology continue to live in the modern imagination through the vivid accounts that have come down to us from the ancient Greeks and Romans. But what if these beings were more than merely fictions? What if monstrous...
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ISBN0691151180
How culture transformed human evolution

Humans possess an extraordinary capacity for cultural production, from the arts and language to science and technology. How did the human mind--and the uniquely human ability to devise and transmit culture--evolve from its roots in animal behavior?...
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ISBN1426202199
Many of us have seen dinosaur bones and skeletons, maybe even dinosaur eggs...but what did those fearsome animals really look like in the flesh? Soft-tissue fossils give tantalizing clues about the appearance and physiology of the ancient animals. In this exciting book, paleontologist Phillip...
The Hedgehog, the Fox & the Magister's Pox: Mending the Gap Between Science & the Humanities
AuthorStephen Jay Gould
ISBN1400051533
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