The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its PeoplesOpen Road + Grove/Atlantic, 7 Jan 2015 - 434 halaman A comprehensive history of the continent, “full of engaging and attention-catching information about North America’s geology, climate, and paleontology” (The Washington Post Book World). Here, “the rock star of modern science” tells the unforgettable story of the geological and biological evolution of the North American continent, from the time of the asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago to the present day (Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel). Flannery describes the development of North America’s deciduous forests and other flora, and tracks the migrations of various animals to and from Europe, Asia, and South America, showing how plant and animal species have either adapted or become extinct. The story spans the massive changes wrought by the ice ages and the coming of the Native Americans. It continues right up to the present, covering the deforestation of the Northeast, the decimation of the buffalo, and other consequences of frontier settlement and the industrial development of the United States. This is science writing at its very best—both an engrossing narrative and a scholarly trove of information that “will forever change your perspective on the North American continent” (The New York Review of Books). |
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... successfully exert a global influence? And can its leading nation, the United States, 'long endure' in its current form? The roots of causality in North America are profound, and to address these questions we must go far back in time ...
... successfully exert a global influence? And can its leading nation, the United States, 'long endure' in its current form? The roots of causality in North America are profound, and to address these questions we must go far back in time ...
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... successful spread was their ability to survive disturbance and to colonise naked earth — a quality developed during millions of years of natural selection on countless newly stripped watercourses and floodplains . How long these stream ...
... successful spread was their ability to survive disturbance and to colonise naked earth — a quality developed during millions of years of natural selection on countless newly stripped watercourses and floodplains . How long these stream ...
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... successful migration from Asia, at least soon after the impact, seems slight. Europe at that time was an island archipelago. The English area of this ancient island realm possessed a broad connection with North America via Greenland and ...
... successful migration from Asia, at least soon after the impact, seems slight. Europe at that time was an island archipelago. The English area of this ancient island realm possessed a broad connection with North America via Greenland and ...
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... successful. In the age of turtles they were distributed over much of North America, but today the sole surviving member of the family, the Central American river turtle, finds its last redoubt in the rivers and streams of Mexico and ...
... successful. In the age of turtles they were distributed over much of North America, but today the sole surviving member of the family, the Central American river turtle, finds its last redoubt in the rivers and streams of Mexico and ...
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... successful in avoiding extirpation by asteroid. Their ancient, fossilised bones inform us that creatures akin to the hellbender (family Cryptobranchidae), which at a metre long is the largest North American amphibian , and the ...
... successful in avoiding extirpation by asteroid. Their ancient, fossilised bones inform us that creatures akin to the hellbender (family Cryptobranchidae), which at a metre long is the largest North American amphibian , and the ...
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