Europe : a natural history /
100 million years ago, the continents of Asia, North America and Africa interacted to create an island archipelago that would later become the Europe we know today. It was on these ancient tropical lands that the first distinctly European organisms evolved. Tim Flannery explores the monumental chang...
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New York :
Atlantic Monthly Press,
[2019]
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| Edition: | First Grove Atlantic edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- I. The tropical Archipelago: 100-34 million years ago
- Destination Europe
- Hateg's first explorer
- Dwarfish, degenerate dinosaurs
- Islands at the crossroads of the world
- Origins and ancient Europeans
- The midwife toad
- The great catastrophe
- A post-apocalyptic world
- New dawn, new invasions
- Messel - a window into the past
- The European great coral reef
- Tales from the sewers of Paris
- II. Becoming continental: 34-2.6 million years ago
- La grande coupure
- Cats, birds and olms
- The marvellous Miocene
- A Miocene bestiary
- Europe's extraordinary apes
- The first upright apes
- Lakes and islands
- The Messinian salinity crisis
- The Pliocene - time of Laocoon
- III. Ice Ages: 2.6 million-38,000 years ago
- The Pleistocene - gateway to the modern world
- Hybrids - Europe, the mother of metissage
- Return of the upright apes
- Neanderthals
- Bastards
- The cultural revolution
- Of assemblages and elephants
- Other temperate giants
- Ice beasts
- What the ancestors drew
- IV. Human Europe: 38,000 years ago to the future
- The balance tips
- The domesticators
- From the horse to Roman failure
- Emptying the islands
- The calm and the storm
- Survivors
- Europe's global expansion
- New Europeans
- Animals of empire
- Europe's bewolfing
- Europe's silent spring
- Rewilding
- Re-creating giants.