End of the Megafauna (eBook)

The Fate of the World's Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals

Ross D E MacPhee (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
256 Seiten
W. W. Norton & Company (Verlag)
978-0-393-24930-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Until a few thousand years ago, creatures-"e;megafauna"e;-that could have been from a sci-fi thriller roamed the earth. With a handful of exceptions, all are now gone.Ross MacPhee explores the question of what caused the disappearance of these prehistoric behemoths, examining the extinction theories, weighing the evidence and presenting his conclusions. He comments on how past extinctions can shed light on future losses and on the possibility of bringing back extinct species through genetic engineering. Gorgeous four-colour illustrations bring these megabeasts back to life in vivid detail.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.11.2018
• Illustrationen: Peter Schouten
• Zusatzinfo: 78 color illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Mineralogie / Paläontologie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
• Schlagworte: American Museum of Natural History • climate change • decline • Dinosaurs • Earth History • extinct • extinction • giant sloth • Holocene • Ice Age • Illustrated • Illustrations • Mammalogy • Mammoth • megafaunal • Nature • paleomammalogy • paleontology • Pleistocene • Prehistoric • Quaternary • ross mcphee • species • Theories • Zoology
• ISBN-10: 0-393-24930-1 / 0393249301
• ISBN-13: 978-0-393-24930-9 / 9780393249309