Once and Future Giants
What Ice Age Extinctions Tell Us About the Fate of Earth's Largest Animals
1st Edition
Published on 22. February 2011
274 pages
978-0-19-970842-0 (ISBN)
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At the close of the last Ice Age--right as the first humans reached the Americas--a whole menagerie of giant beasts vanished forever. In ONCE AND FUTURE GIANTS, Sharon Levy argues that understanding this mass extinction will be critical to the protection of threatened species worldwide.
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Sharon Levy
Once and Future Giants
What Ice Age Extinctions Tell Us About the Fate of Earth's Largest Animals
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05/2011
Oxford University Press Inc
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Prologue
- ELEGY FOR THE MASTODON
- MAMMOTH TRACKS
- GIANTS DOWN UNDER
- WILD DREAMS
- WILD REALITIES
- THE BIG HEAT
- DEAD BEASTS WALKING
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- V
- W
- Y
- Z
