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The call of distant mammoths : why the ice age mammals disappeared / Peter Douglas Ward.
- Title
- The call of distant mammoths : why the ice age mammals disappeared / Peter Douglas Ward.
- Author
- Ward, Peter D. (Peter Douglas), 1949-
- Publication
- New York : Copernicus, 1997.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | QE882.P8 W37 1997 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xviii, 241 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Discusses the impact of humans on the extinction of animals, focusing particulary on mammoths in the Ice Age, but also including mass extinctions throughout history, such as marsupial lions and giant kangaroos in Australia, the giant moa in New Zealand, and various prehistoric animals in North America, all of which followed the spread of the first humans in those regions.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 0387949151 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^96048690^
- OCLC
- 35849162
- SCSB-10492387
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library