The Call of Distant Mammoths : Why the Ice Age Mammals Disappeared /

Just 12,000 years ago - at the height of the last Ice Age - saber-toothed tigers, giant ground sloths, camels, hippos and the great herds of proboscideans: giant mastodons and mammoths, extinct relatives of the elephant, roamed the land where skyscrapers now stand. Why are these splendid creatures n...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ward, Peter D.
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint : Springer, 1997.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The Time Machine
  • Heart of Darkness
  • When Worlds Collide
  • The Once and Future Kingdoms
  • Wheel of Fortune
  • The Hunger
  • The Kill Curve
  • The Lost World
  • Nevermore
  • The Smoking Gun
  • Afterword: 3001.