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Table of Contents:

• Prologue: The hyena
• pt. 1: The way of the world. A creature in the forest
• Lush life
• Ephemeral life
• Elephants, dung beetles, and ecosystems
• Evolution : life through a new lens
• pt. 2: The world becomes modern. Ancient ground
• Imperial collapse
• The dinosaurs of Middle Earth
• A flower in the forest
• The garden of delights
• Toward a new ecosystem
• Dinosaur Camelot
• pt. 3: Death and resurrection. A puzzling catastrophe
• The era after
• pt. 4: Terra Humana. Who they were
• The exterminators
• The cultivators
• Land rush
• Dark forces

• The waste of a world
• Heat wave
• Future world.

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Author/Creator:

Novacek, Michael J.

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Terra: our 100-million-year-old ecosystem--and the threats that now put it at risk [by Novacek, M.J.]

Subjects:

Extinction (Biology)

Evolution (Biology)

Nature — Effect of human beings on

Paleontology

Environmental degradation

Nature

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [357]-425) and index.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 451 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Call Numbers:

QE721.2.E97 N68 2007

ISBNs:

9780374273255 (hardcover, alk. paper)
0374273251 (hardcover, alk. paper)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2007009126

OCLC Numbers:

85814141