Paleontology - General & Miscellaneous, Dinosaurs, Paleontology - Geological Time Periods, Biology - General & Miscellaneous
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Prothero is an expert on fossil mammals, their environments, and the means to date them, but he has enlarged that perspective to include discussions of such topics as extinctions in general, especially those potentially caused by asteroid impacts . . . Highly recommended. (Choice)
Prothero has the rare knack of being able to turn a period of Earth history into an enjoyable and readable book of the science and events. (Geoscientist)
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Choice
Prothero is an expert on fossil mammals, their environments, and the means to date them, but he has enlarged that perspective to include discussions of such topics as extinctions in general, especially those potentially caused by asteroid impacts . . . Highly recommended.Geoscientist
Prothero has the rare knack of being able to turn a period of Earth history into an enjoyable and readable book of the science and events.Booknews
After a decade of new findings and interpretation based on innovative techniques during the 1980s, archaeologists were pretty sure that 38 million years ago the earth still basked in a subtropical "greenhouse" that had lasted since the age of dinosaurs, but 5 million years later there were glaciers in the Antarctic, signalling the beginning of the "icehouse" state that we know now. Here is a summary of the present understanding of the climatic and biological changes, for nonspecialists who have some familiarity with the terms and concepts of archaeology. Paper edition (08091-3), $24. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
June 23, 1994
Publisher
New York : Columbia University Press, c1994.
Pages
291
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780231080903