Name: Once and Future Giants: What ice age Extinctions Tell us About the Fate of Earth's Largest Animals (en Inglés)
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Author: Sharon Levy
ISBN: 9780199931163

portada Once and Future Giants: What ice age Extinctions Tell us About the Fate of Earth's Largest Animals (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Editorial

Oxford University Press

Autor

Sharon Levy

Año

2012

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

280

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN

019993116x

ISBN13

9780199931163

N° edición

Categorías

Especies en peligro de extinción

Once and Future Giants: What ice age Extinctions Tell us About the Fate of Earth's Largest Animals (en Inglés)

Sharon Levy (Autor) · Oxford University Press · Tapa Blanda

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Until about 13,000 years ago, North America was home to a menagerie of massive mammals. Mammoths, camels, and lions walked the ground that has become Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles and foraged on the marsh land now buried beneath Chicago's streets. Then, just as the first humans reached the Americas, these Ice Age giants vanished forever.In Once and Future Giants, science writer Sharon Levy digs through the evidence surrounding Pleistocene large animal ("megafauna") extinction events worldwide, showing that understanding this history--and our part in it--is crucial for protecting the elephants, polar bears, and other great creatures at risk today. These surviving relatives of the Ice Age beasts now face the threat of another great die-off, as our species usurps the planet's last wild places while driving a warming trend more extreme than any in mammalian history. Deftly navigating competing theories and emerging evidence, Once and Future Giants examines the extent of human influence on megafauna extinctions past and present, and explores innovative conservation efforts around the globe. The key to modern-day conservation, Levy suggests, may lie fossilized right under our feet.