Mammoths, Sabertooths, and Hominids: 65 Million Years of by Jordi Agustí,Mauricio Anton

By Jordi Agustí,Mauricio Anton

Mammoths, Sabertooths, and Hominids takes us on a trip via sixty five million years, from the aftermath of the extinction of the dinosaurs to the glacial climax of the Pleistocene epoch; from the rain forests of the Paleocene and the Eocene, with their lemur-like primates, to the cruel panorama of the Pleistocene Steppes, domestic to the woolly colossal. it's also a trip via area, following the migrations of mammal species that developed on different continents and finally met to compete or coexist in Cenozoic Europe. ultimately, it's a trip throughout the complexity of mammalian evolution, a assessment of the adjustments and variations that experience allowed mammals to flourish and develop into the dominant land vertebrates on Earth.

With the good thing about fresh advances in geological and geophysical options, Jordi Agustí and Mauricio Antón may be able to hint the tactics of mammalian evolution as by no means ahead of; occasions that hitherto seemed synchronous or at the very least heavily similar can now be distinctive on a scale of countless numbers or maybe dozens of millions of years, revealing the dramatic value of climactic adjustments either significant and minor. Evolutionary advancements are rendered in extraordinary illustrations of the various outstanding species that after inhabited Europe, detailing their osteology, useful anatomy, and inferred styles of locomotion and behaviour. in line with the newest learn and box paintings, Mammoths, Sabertooths, and Hominids transforms our realizing of ways mammals advanced and adjusted the face of the planet.

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