Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 269 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 386 g
Reihe: Organisms and Environments
Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 269 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 386 g
Reihe: Organisms and Environments
ISBN: 978-0-520-25243-1
Verlag: University of California Press
As he discusses the discoveries that brought him to this hypothesis, Martin relates many colorful stories and gives a rich overview of the field of paleontology as well as his own fascinating career. He explores the ramifications of the overkill hypothesis for similar extinctions worldwide and examines other explanations for the extinctions, including climate change. Martin's visionary thinking about our missing megafauna offers inspiration and a challenge for today's conservation efforts as he speculates on what we might do to remedy this situation—both in our thinking about what is "natural" and in the natural world itself.
Fachgebiete
Weitere Infos & Material
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Prologue
1 Discovering the Last Lost World
Radiocarbon Dating and Quaternary Extinctions
2 Overview of Overkill
3 Ground Sloth Dung and Packrat Middens
Giant Meat-Eating Bats?
4 Ground Sloths at Home
Cryptozoology, Ground Sloths, and Mapinguari National Park
5 Grand Canyon Suite: Mountain Goats, Condors, Equids, and Mammoths
6 Deadly Syncopation
7 Digging for the First People in America: High Stakes at Tule Springs
Tricks, Hoaxes, and Bad Science
8 Kill Sites, Sacred Sites
9 Models in Collision: Climatic Change versus Overkill
10 Restoration
Unexpected Ramifications of Ecological Change
11 Resurrection: The Past Is Future
Epilogue
References
Index