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The Age of Mammals (Life of the Past Series)
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The fascinating group of animals called dinosaurs became extinct some 65 million years ago (except for their feathered descendants). In their place evolved an enormous variety of land creatures, especially mammals, which in their way were every bit as remarkable as their Mesozoic cousins. The Age of Mammals, the Cenozoic Era, has never had its Jurassic Park, but it was an amazing time in earth's history, populated by a wonderful assortment of bizarre animals.
The rapid evolution of thousands of species of mammals brought forth many incredible creatures—including our own ancestors. Their story is part of a larger story of new life emerging from the greenhouse conditions of the Mesozoic, warming up dramatically about 55 million years ago, and then cooling rapidly so that 33 million years ago the glacial ice returned. The earth's vegetation went through equally dramatic changes, from tropical jungles in Montana and forests at the poles. Life in the sea underwent striking evolution reflecting global climate change, including the emergence of such creatures as giant sharks, seals, sea lions, dolphins, and whales.
Engaging and insightful, After the Dinosaurs is a book for everyone who has an abiding fascination with the remarkable life of the past.
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When we talk about human history, we often focus on great leaders, population forces, and decisive wars. But how has the earth itself determined our destiny? Our planet wobbles, driving changes in climate that forced the transition from nomadism to farming. Mountainous terrain led to the development of democracy in Greece. Atmospheric circulation patterns later on shaped the progression of global exploration, colonization, and trade. Even today, voting behavior in the southeast United States ultimately follows the underlying pattern of 75 million-year-old sediments from an ancient sea.
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5 out of 5 stars
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GREAT Book with a Narrator Who's Falling Asleep
- De aaron en 08-02-20
De: Lewis Dartnell
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Ancient Bones
- Unearthing the Astonishing New Story of How We Became Human
- De: Madelaine Böhme
- Narrado por: Aimée Ayotte
- Duración: 7 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Africa has long been considered the cradle of life - where life and humans evolved - but somewhere west of Munich, Germany, paleoclimatologist and paleontologist Madelaine Böhme and her team make a discovery that is beyond anything they ever imagined: the 12-million-year-old bones of an ancient ape - Danuvius guggenmos - which makes headlines around the world and defies prevailing theories of human history and where human life began.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brave Attempt
- De Bill Treat en 10-15-22
De: Madelaine Böhme
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First Peoples in a New World
- Colonizing Ice Age America
- De: David J. Meltzer
- Narrado por: Christopher Prince
- Duración: 11 h
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 182
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 152
More than 12,000 years ago, in one of the greatest triumphs of prehistory, humans colonized North America, a continent that was then truly a new world. Just when and how they did so has been one of the most perplexing and controversial questions in archaeology.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Last Gasp of American Anthropological Orthodoxy
- De Thomas66 en 01-05-17
De: David J. Meltzer
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The Nature of Nature
- Why We Need the Wild
- De: Enric Sala
- Narrado por: Will Damron
- Duración: 6 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 61
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 61
In this inspiring manifesto, an internationally renowned ecologist makes a clear case for why protecting nature is our best health insurance, and why it makes economic sense.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing
- De Lars Pardo en 11-21-24
De: Enric Sala
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The Neanderthals Rediscovered
- How Modern Science Is Rewriting Their Story (Revised and Updated Edition)
- De: Dimitra Papagianni, Michael A. Morse
- Narrado por: Nigel Patterson
- Duración: 5 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 406
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 354
In recent years, the common perception of the Neanderthals has been transformed, thanks to new discoveries and paradigm-shattering scientific innovations. It turns out that the Neanderthals' behavior was surprisingly modern: they buried the dead, cared for the sick, hunted large animals in their prime, harvested seafood, and communicated with spoken language. Meanwhile, advances in DNA technologies are compelling us to reassess the Neanderthals' place in our own past.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating Subject... Soporific Reader
- De Andrew E. Yarosh en 11-21-17
De: Dimitra Papagianni, y otros
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The Ocean of Life
- The Fate of Man and the Sea
- De: Callum Roberts
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 13 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 70
Who can forget the sense of wonder with which they discovered the creatures of the deep? In this vibrant hymn to the sea, Callum Roberts - one of the world’s foremost conservation biologists - leads listeners on a fascinating tour of mankind’s relationship to the sea, from the earliest traces of water on Earth to the oceans as we know them today. In the process, Roberts looks at how the taming of the oceans has shaped human civilization and affected marine life. Like Four Fish and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, The Ocean of Life takes a long view to tell a story in which each one of us has a role to play.
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5 out of 5 stars
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MUST READ!
- De E en 11-28-17
De: Callum Roberts
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Across Atlantic Ice
- The Origin of America's Clovis Culture
- De: Bruce A. Bruce A. Bradley, Denis J. Stanford
- Narrado por: Christopher Prince
- Duración: 10 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 123
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 112
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 113
Who were the first humans to inhabit North America? According to the now familiar story, mammal hunters entered the continent some 12,000 years ago via a land bridge that spanned the Bering Sea. The presence of these early New World people was established by distinctive stone tools belonging to the Clovis culture. But are the Clovis tools Asian in origin? Drawing from original archaeological analysis, paleoclimatic research, and genetic studies, noted archaeologists Dennis J. Stanford and Bruce A. Bradley challenge the old narrative.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Ice Cold story
- De S. Wells en 06-17-12
De: Bruce A. Bruce A. Bradley, y otros
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When Humans Nearly Vanished
- The Catastrophic Explosion of the Toba Volcano
- De: Donald R. Prothero
- Narrado por: Qarie Marshall
- Duración: 6 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 120
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 108
Some 73,000 years ago, the Mount Toba supervolcano in toda's Indonesia erupted, releasing the energy of a million tons of explosives. So much ash and debris was injected into the stratosphere that it partially blocked the sun's radiation and caused global temperatures to drop for a decade. In this book, Donald R. Prothero presents the controversial argument that the Toba catastrophe nearly wiped out the human race, leaving only about a thousand to ten thousand breeding pairs of humans worldwide.
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1 out of 5 stars
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A very special book
- De Scott Fitzsimmons en 02-02-19
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The Sediments of Time
- My Lifelong Search for the Past
- De: Meave Leakey, Samira Leakey
- Narrado por: Susan Lyons
- Duración: 14 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 44
Preeminent paleoanthropologist Meave Leakey brings us along on her remarkable journey to reveal the diversity of our early pre-human ancestors and how past climate change drove their evolution. She offers a fresh account of our past, as recent breakthroughs have allowed new analysis of her team’s fossil findings and vastly expanded our understanding of our ancestors. Meave’s own personal story is replete with drama, from thrilling discoveries on the shores of Lake Turkana to run-ins with armed herders and every manner of wildlife, to raising her children....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant!
- De tess koffler en 04-07-21
De: Meave Leakey, y otros
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The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks
- Tales of Important Geological Puzzles and the People Who Solved Them
- De: Donald R. Prothero
- Narrado por: Tom Parks
- Duración: 11 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 154
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 134
The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks tells the fascinating stories behind the discoveries that shook the foundations of geology. In 25 chapters, Donald R. Prothero recounts the scientific detective work that shaped our understanding of geology, from the unearthing of exemplary specimens to tectonic shifts in how we view the inner workings of our planet.
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3 out of 5 stars
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More about scientists than science
- De Aunt Vee en 06-14-20
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The Story of Earth
- The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet
- De: Robert M. Hazen
- Narrado por: Walter Dixon
- Duración: 9 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,099
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 936
Earth evolves. From first atom to molecule, mineral to magma, granite crust to single cell to verdant living landscape, ours is a planet constantly in flux. In this radical new approach to Earth’s biography, senior Carnegie Institution researcher and national best-selling author Robert M. Hazen reveals how the co-evolution of the geosphere and biosphere - of rocks and living matter - has shaped our planet into the only one of its kind in the Solar System, if not the entire cosmos.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Makes minerals interesting
- De Gary en 07-31-12
De: Robert M. Hazen
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Cro-Magnon
- How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans
- De: Brian Fagan
- Narrado por: James Langton
- Duración: 9 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 573
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 293
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 297
Best-selling author Brian Fagan brings early humans out of the deep freeze with his trademark mix of erudition, cutting-edge science, and vivid storytelling. Cro-Magnon reveals human society in its infancy, facing enormous environmental challenges - including a rival species of humans, the Neanderthals. For ten millennia, Cro-Magnons lived side by side with Neanderthals, an encounter that Fagan fills with drama.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Fact and fiction
- De Paul en 08-12-10
De: Brian Fagan
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A Pocket History of Human Evolution
- How We Became Sapiens
- De: Silvana Condemi, Francois Savatier
- Narrado por: Christa Lewis
- Duración: 3 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 45
A Pocket History of Human Evolution brings us up-to-date on the exploits of all our ancient relatives. Paleoanthropologist Silvana Condemi and science journalist François Savatier consider what accelerated our evolution: Was it tools, our "large" brains, language, empathy, or something else entirely? And why are we the sole survivors among many early bipedal humans? Their conclusions reveal the various ways ancient humans live on today - from gossip as modern "grooming" to our gendered division of labor - and what the future might hold for our strange and unique species.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well presented and very informative.
- De Jim Griggs en 11-11-21
De: Silvana Condemi, y otros
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
- A New History of a Lost World
- De: Steve Brusatte
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 10 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4,491
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4,036
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4,016
In this stunning narrative spanning more than 200 million years, Steve Brusatte, a young American paleontologist who has emerged as one of the foremost stars of the field - discovering 10 new species and leading groundbreaking scientific studies and fieldwork - masterfully tells the complete, surprising, and new history of the dinosaurs, drawing on cutting-edge science to dramatically bring to life their lost world and illuminate their enigmatic origins, spectacular flourishing, astonishing diversity, cataclysmic extinction, and startling living legacy.
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2 out of 5 stars
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"The Rise of the Scientists Who Study Dinosaurs"
- De Daniel Powell en 09-16-18
De: Steve Brusatte
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The Great Warming
- Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
- De: Brian Fagan
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert
- Duración: 9 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 103
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 73
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 74
The history of the Great Warming of a half millennium ago suggests that we may yet be underestimating the power of climate change to disrupt our lives todayand our vulnerability to drought, writes Fagan, is the silent elephant in the room.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Good book but unpracticed, disjointed narration.
- De Paul en 09-12-10
De: Brian Fagan
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A Most Improbable Journey
- A Big History of Our Planet and Ourselves
- De: Walter Alvarez
- Narrado por: Adam Verner
- Duración: 6 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 34
Big History, the field that studies the entire known past of our universe to give context to human existence, has so far been the domain of historians. Geologist Walter Alvarez - best known for his Impact Theory explaining dinosaur extinction - makes a compelling case for a new, science-first approach to Big History.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Learned so much
- De Niki en 12-09-18
De: Walter Alvarez
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Extinctions
- How Life Survives, Adapts and Evolves
- De: Michael J. Benton
- Narrado por: Peter Noble
- Duración: 9 h y 39 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 21
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 18
Cutting-edge techniques across biology, chemistry, physics, and geology have transformed our understanding of the deep past, including the discovery of a previously unknown mass extinction. This compelling evidence, revealing a series of environmental crises resulting in the near collapse of life on Earth, illuminates our current dilemmas in exquisite detail.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Gets better as you go
- De Texas Mama en 01-31-25
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Cambrian Ocean World
- Ancient Sea Life of North America (Life of the Past Series)
- De: John Foster
- Narrado por: David Stifel
- Duración: 16 h y 45 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 10
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 6
This volume, aimed at the general audience, presents life and times of the amazing animals that inhabited Earth more than 500 million years ago. The Cambrian Period was a critical time in Earth's history. During this immense span of time nearly every modern group of animals appeared. Although life had been around for more than 2 million millennia, Cambrian rocks preserve the record of the first appearance of complex animals with eyes, protective skeletons, antennae, and complex ecologies.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Useless without a PDF of the illustrations
- De LarryP. en 06-12-23
De: John Foster
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Homo Sapiens Rediscovered
- The Scientific Revolution Rewriting Our Origins
- De: Paul Pettitt
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 8 h y 41 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 63
Who are we? How do scientists define Homo sapiens, and how does our species differ from the extinct hominins that came before us? In this accessible account palaeoarchaeologist Paul Pettitt shows how the latest scientific advances, especially in genetics, are revolutionizing our understanding of human evolution. Pettitt reveals the extraordinary story of how our ancestors adapted to unforgiving and relentlessly changing climates, leading to remarkable innovations in art, technology, and society that we are only now beginning to comprehend.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Current and Relevant
- De Amazon Customer en 11-16-23
De: Paul Pettitt
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When Humans Nearly Vanished
- The Catastrophic Explosion of the Toba Volcano
- De: Donald R. Prothero
- Narrado por: Qarie Marshall
- Duración: 6 h y 47 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 120
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Some 73,000 years ago, the Mount Toba supervolcano in toda's Indonesia erupted, releasing the energy of a million tons of explosives. So much ash and debris was injected into the stratosphere that it partially blocked the sun's radiation and caused global temperatures to drop for a decade. In this book, Donald R. Prothero presents the controversial argument that the Toba catastrophe nearly wiped out the human race, leaving only about a thousand to ten thousand breeding pairs of humans worldwide.
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1 out of 5 stars
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A very special book
- De Scott Fitzsimmons en 02-02-19
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Otherlands
- A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
- De: Thomas Halliday
- Narrado por: Adetomiwa Edun
- Duración: 11 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 230
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 185
The past is past, but it does leave clues, and Thomas Halliday has used cutting-edge science to decipher them more completely than ever before. In Otherlands, Halliday makes sixteen fossil sites burst to life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book brilliantly read
- De Dipam en 04-06-22
De: Thomas Halliday
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Wonderful Life
- The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
- De: Stephen Jay Gould
- Narrado por: Jonathan Sleep
- Duración: 10 h y 42 m
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 18
High in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago called the Burgess Shale. It holds the remains of an ancient sea where dozens of strange creatures lived—a forgotten corner of evolution preserved in awesome detail. In this book, Stephen Jay Gould explores what the Burgess Shale tells us about evolution and the nature of history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Science made interesting
- De An Old Crow en 09-13-23
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Extinctions
- How Life Survives, Adapts and Evolves
- De: Michael J. Benton
- Narrado por: Peter Noble
- Duración: 9 h y 39 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 21
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 18
Cutting-edge techniques across biology, chemistry, physics, and geology have transformed our understanding of the deep past, including the discovery of a previously unknown mass extinction. This compelling evidence, revealing a series of environmental crises resulting in the near collapse of life on Earth, illuminates our current dilemmas in exquisite detail.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Gets better as you go
- De Texas Mama en 01-31-25
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Cambrian Ocean World
- Ancient Sea Life of North America (Life of the Past Series)
- De: John Foster
- Narrado por: David Stifel
- Duración: 16 h y 45 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 10
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 6
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 6
This volume, aimed at the general audience, presents life and times of the amazing animals that inhabited Earth more than 500 million years ago. The Cambrian Period was a critical time in Earth's history. During this immense span of time nearly every modern group of animals appeared. Although life had been around for more than 2 million millennia, Cambrian rocks preserve the record of the first appearance of complex animals with eyes, protective skeletons, antennae, and complex ecologies.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Useless without a PDF of the illustrations
- De LarryP. en 06-12-23
De: John Foster
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Homo Sapiens Rediscovered
- The Scientific Revolution Rewriting Our Origins
- De: Paul Pettitt
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 8 h y 41 m
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 63
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 63
Who are we? How do scientists define Homo sapiens, and how does our species differ from the extinct hominins that came before us? In this accessible account palaeoarchaeologist Paul Pettitt shows how the latest scientific advances, especially in genetics, are revolutionizing our understanding of human evolution. Pettitt reveals the extraordinary story of how our ancestors adapted to unforgiving and relentlessly changing climates, leading to remarkable innovations in art, technology, and society that we are only now beginning to comprehend.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Current and Relevant
- De Amazon Customer en 11-16-23
De: Paul Pettitt
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When Humans Nearly Vanished
- The Catastrophic Explosion of the Toba Volcano
- De: Donald R. Prothero
- Narrado por: Qarie Marshall
- Duración: 6 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 120
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 108
Some 73,000 years ago, the Mount Toba supervolcano in toda's Indonesia erupted, releasing the energy of a million tons of explosives. So much ash and debris was injected into the stratosphere that it partially blocked the sun's radiation and caused global temperatures to drop for a decade. In this book, Donald R. Prothero presents the controversial argument that the Toba catastrophe nearly wiped out the human race, leaving only about a thousand to ten thousand breeding pairs of humans worldwide.
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1 out of 5 stars
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A very special book
- De Scott Fitzsimmons en 02-02-19
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Otherlands
- A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
- De: Thomas Halliday
- Narrado por: Adetomiwa Edun
- Duración: 11 h y 6 m
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 185
The past is past, but it does leave clues, and Thomas Halliday has used cutting-edge science to decipher them more completely than ever before. In Otherlands, Halliday makes sixteen fossil sites burst to life.
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Great book brilliantly read
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Wonderful Life
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High in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago called the Burgess Shale. It holds the remains of an ancient sea where dozens of strange creatures lived—a forgotten corner of evolution preserved in awesome detail. In this book, Stephen Jay Gould explores what the Burgess Shale tells us about evolution and the nature of history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Science made interesting
- De An Old Crow en 09-13-23
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The Last Days of the Dinosaurs
- An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
- De: Riley Black
- Narrado por: Christina Delaine
- Duración: 7 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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Picture yourself in the Cretaceous period. It’s a sunny afternoon in the Hell Creek of ancient Montana 66 million years ago. A Triceratops horridus ambles along the edge of the forest. In a matter of hours, everything here will be wiped away. Lush verdure will be replaced with fire. Tyrannosaurus rex will be toppled from their throne, along with every other species of non-avian dinosaur no matter their size, diet, or disposition. They just don’t know it yet.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the best
- De Amazon Customer en 05-02-22
De: Riley Black
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The Rise and Reign of the Mammals
- A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
- De: Steve Brusatte
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 13 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 564
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 471
We humans are the inheritors of a dynasty that has reigned over the planet for nearly 66 million years, through fiery cataclysm and ice ages: the mammals. Our lineage includes saber-toothed tigers, woolly mammoths, armadillos the size of a car, cave bears three times the weight of a grizzly, clever scurriers that outlasted Tyrannosaurus rex, and even other types of humans, like Neanderthals.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic Book
- De Peter Jensen en 09-08-22
De: Steve Brusatte
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Uncovering Dinosaur Behavior
- What They Did and How We Know
- De: David Hone
- Narrado por: Graham Mack
- Duración: 5 h y 51 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Written by one of the world's leading dinosaur experts, Uncovering Dinosaur Behavior is a foundational work on the subject and an invaluable reference for anyone interested in these amazing creatures.
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2 out of 5 stars
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No PDF
- De BrendaMT en 11-14-24
De: David Hone
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Megafauna
- Giant Beasts of Pleistocene South America (Life of the Past)
- De: Richard A. Fariña, Sergio F. Vizcaíno, Gerry De Iuliis
- Narrado por: Gary Tiedemann
- Duración: 17 h y 46 m
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General3 out of 5 stars 4
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 2
More than 10,000 years ago spectacularly large mammals roamed the pampas and jungles of South America. This book tells the story of these great beasts during and just after the Pleistocene, the geological epoch marked by the great ice ages. Megafauna describes the history and way of life of these animals, their comings and goings, and what befell them at the beginning of the modern era and the arrival of humans.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Academia would be proud. I think.
- De Dane en 01-05-24
De: Richard A. Fariña, y otros
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Dinosaurs Rediscovered
- The Scientific Revolution in Paleontology
- De: Michael J. Benton
- Narrado por: Matthew Waterson
- Duración: 6 h y 52 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 244
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In Dinosaurs Rediscovered, leading paleontologist Michael J. Benton gathers together all the latest paleontological evidence, tracing the transformation of dinosaur study from its roots in antiquated natural history to an indisputably scientific field. Among other things, the book explores how dinosaur remains are found and excavated, and especially how paleontologists read the details of dinosaurs' lives from their fossils - their colors, their growth, and even whether we will ever be able to bring them back to life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great overview of advances in dinosaur paleo
- De Keegan en 03-28-20
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A Brief History of Earth
- Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
- De: Andrew H. Knoll
- Narrado por: Tom Parks
- Duración: 4 h y 57 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 264
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 219
Drawing on his decades of field research and up-to-the-minute understanding of the latest science, renowned geologist Andrew H. Knoll delivers a rigorous yet accessible biography of Earth, charting our home planet's epic 4.6 billion-year story. Placing 21st-century climate change in deep context, A Brief History of Earth is an indispensable look at where we’ve been and where we’re going.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very chilling and well thought out
- De Colin Bump en 05-21-21
De: Andrew H. Knoll
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Oceans of Kansas
- A Natural History of the Western Interior Sea
- De: Michael J. Everhart
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 14 h y 50 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 21
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 17
Revised, updated, and expanded with the latest interpretations and fossil discoveries, the second edition of Oceans of Kansas adds new twists to the fascinating story of the vast inland sea that engulfed central North America during the Age of Dinosaurs. Giant sharks, marine reptiles called mosasaurs, pteranodons, and birds with teeth all flourished in and around these shallow waters. Their abundant and well-preserved remains were sources of great excitement in the scientific community when first discovered in the 1860s and continue to yield exciting discoveries 150 years later.
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1 out of 5 stars
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CAUTION: will cause drowsiness.
- De Occasional Barista en 01-16-25
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A New History of Life
- The Radical New Discoveries About the Origins and Evolution of Life on Earth
- De: Peter Ward, Joe Kirschvink
- Narrado por: William Elsman
- Duración: 14 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 8
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 8
Charles Darwin’s theories, first published more than 150 years ago, still set the paradigm of how we understand the evolution of life—but scientific advances of recent decades have radically altered that understanding. In fact the currently accepted history of life on Earth is flawed and out of date. Now two pioneering scientists, one already an award-winning popular author, deliver an eye-opening narrative that synthesizes a generation’s worth of insights from new research.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Paleoatmospheres reveal species success or failure
- De Katibird en 11-25-23
De: Peter Ward, y otros
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
- A New History of a Lost World
- De: Steve Brusatte
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 10 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4,491
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In this stunning narrative spanning more than 200 million years, Steve Brusatte, a young American paleontologist who has emerged as one of the foremost stars of the field - discovering 10 new species and leading groundbreaking scientific studies and fieldwork - masterfully tells the complete, surprising, and new history of the dinosaurs, drawing on cutting-edge science to dramatically bring to life their lost world and illuminate their enigmatic origins, spectacular flourishing, astonishing diversity, cataclysmic extinction, and startling living legacy.
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2 out of 5 stars
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"The Rise of the Scientists Who Study Dinosaurs"
- De Daniel Powell en 09-16-18
De: Steve Brusatte
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The Age of Dinosaurs
- The Rise and Fall of the World's Most Remarkable Animals
- De: Steve Brusatte
- Narrado por: Josh Horowitz
- Duración: 4 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 32
Think you know about dinosaurs? Think again! New York Times best-selling and award-winning author Steve Brusatte brings young scientists and listeners everywhere into his world of massive herbivores and fearsome predators, daily unexpected discoveries, and all the new science used to learn about some of the world’s oldest beings.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Enjoyable Book. Narration was rough at first.
- De Spork en 06-28-22
De: Steve Brusatte
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A New History of Life
- De: Stuart Sutherland, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Stuart Sutherland
- Duración: 17 h y 46 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 427
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 381
The story of our world and the different living things that have populated it is an amazing epic with millions of species, exotic settings, planet-wide cataclysms, and surprising plot twists. These 36 lectures tell the all-embracing story of life on Earth - its origins, extinctions, and evolutions - in a manner that assumes no background in science. At half an hour per lecture, you’ll cover the entire 4.54-billion-year history of Earth in 18 hours, averaging 70,000 years per second!
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4 out of 5 stars
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Get the video version
- De B. Bartosh en 06-17-19
De: Stuart Sutherland, y otros
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Life on a Young Planet
- The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth
- De: Andrew H. Knoll
- Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin
- Duración: 9 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 104
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 85
Australopithecines, dinosaurs, trilobites - such fossils conjure up images of lost worlds filled with vanished organisms. But in the full history of life, ancient animals, even the trilobites, form only the half-billion-year tip of a nearly four-billion-year iceberg. Andrew Knoll explores the deep history of life from its origins on a young planet to the incredible Cambrian explosion, presenting a compelling new explanation for the emergence of biological novelty.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Earliest Life
- De Arden en 02-16-20
De: Andrew H. Knoll
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre After the Dinosaurs
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- Keegan K.
- 08-08-23
Worth a listen
I appreciated that Prothero presented many hypotheses and theories as scientific debates, rather than just treating them as agreed facts, which is something often missing from many pop culture science books. Although the final chapter he seemed to want to simplify human civilizations and reverted to the common practice.
I found the narrator’s mispronunciation of many words frustrating.
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- Bertha Watkins
- 04-01-24
Mammals are immersed in minutia.
Very scholarly and detailed. But the book title suggests an account of mammals after KT event. But the mammals are diluted and drowned out by a lot of detail and minutia on mollusks, snails, crocodiles, left over lizards etc., etc. It is really written for practitioners in this field. Not for lay readers like me, who have no background or interest in the minutia.
P.Harrison
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- Junita J.
- 04-12-23
Well put together
It was a great listen. I love books like this! Now one about early hominid lifestyle
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