Greenhouse of the Dinosaurs
Evolution, Extinction, and the Future of Our Planet
Prothero begins with the greenhouse of the dinosaurs, the global-warming episode that dominated the Age of Dinosaurs and the early Age of Mammals. He describes the remarkable creatures that once populated the earth and uses his experiences collecting fossils in the Big Badlands of South Dakota to sketch their world. He then discusses the growth of the first Antarctic glaciers, which marked the Eocene-Oligocene transition. In following this dramatic transformation, Prothero shares his anecdotes of excavations and activists and illuminates the controversies between colleagues that shape our understanding of the contemporary and prehistoric worl…
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- ISBN: 978-0-231-14660-9
- EAN: 9780231146609
- Produktnummer: 4551642
- Verlag: Columbia University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B18.3 cm x D2.0 cm 664 g
- Abbildungen: 120 illus.
- Gewicht: 664
- Sonstiges: Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Über den Autor
Donald R. Prothero is professor of geology at Occidental College in Los Angeles and lecturer in geobiology at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1988 and the Schuchert Award (for an outstanding paleontologist under forty) in 1991. He is the author, coauthor, editor, or coeditor of twenty-four books and over two hundred scientific papers. His titles for Columbia University Press are Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters, From Greenhouse to Icehouse, and The Eocene-Oligocene Transition.
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