After the dinosaurs : the age of mammals

Donald R. Prothero

Perhaps nudged over the evolutionary cliff by a giant boloid striking the earth, the incredible and fascinating group of animals called dinosaurs became extinct some 65 million years ago (except for their feathered descendants). In their place evolved an enormous variety of land creatures, especially the mammals, which in their way were every bit as remarkable as their Mesozoic cousins. The Age of Mammals, the Cenozoic Era, has never had its Jurassic Park, but it was an amazing time in earth's history, populated by a wonderful assortment of bizarre animals. The rapid evolution of thousands of species of mammals brought forth gigantic hornless rhinos, sabertooth cats, mastodonts and mammoths, and many other creatures - including our own ancestors. Their story is part of a larger story of a world emerging from the greenhouse conditions of the Mesozoic, warming up dramatically about 55 million years ago, and then cooling rapidly so that 33 million years ago the glacial ice returned. The earth's vegetation went through equally dramatic changes, from tropical jungles in Montana and forests at the poles, to grasslands and savannas across the entire world. Life in the sea also underwent striking evolution reflecting global climate change, including the emergence of such creatures as giant sharks, seals, sea lions, dolphins, and whales. "After the Dinosaurs" is a book for everyone who has an abiding fascination with the remarkable life of the past.

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[目次]

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The End of the Dinosaurs?
  • 3. Brave New World: The Paleocene
  • 4. Dawn of the Recent: The Eocene
  • 5. The Icehouse Cometh: The Oligocene
  • 6. The Savanna Story: The Miocene
  • 7. The World in Transition: The Pliocene
  • 8. Ice Time: The Pleistocene
  • 9. Our Interglacial: The Holocene
  • Bibliography

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書名 After the dinosaurs : the age of mammals
著作者等 Prothero, Donald R
シリーズ名 Life of the past
出版元 Indiana University Press
刊行年月 c2006
ページ数 xii, 362 p., [8] p. of plates
大きさ 27 cm
ISBN 0253347335
9780253347336
NCID BB26843130
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言語 英語
出版国 アメリカ合衆国

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