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End of the Megafauna

- The Fate of the World's Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals
Af: Ross D E MacPhee Engelsk Hardback

End of the Megafauna

- The Fate of the World's Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals
Af: Ross D E MacPhee Engelsk Hardback
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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.
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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.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 256
ISBN-13: 9780393249293
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 0393249298
Kategori: Zoologi: pattedyr
Udg. Dato: 23 nov 2018
Længde: 21mm
Bredde: 262mm
Højde: 211mm
Forlag: WW Norton & Co
Oplagsdato: 23 nov 2018
Forfatter(e): Ross D E MacPhee
Forfatter(e) Ross D E MacPhee

Kategori Zoologi: pattedyr

ISBN-13 9780393249293

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 256

Udgave

Længde 21mm

Bredde 262mm

Højde 211mm

Udg. Dato 23 nov 2018

Oplagsdato 23 nov 2018

Forlag WW Norton & Co

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