Author : Lydia Pyne
Release : 2013-04-30
Genre : Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 424/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Last Lost World by : Lydia Pyne
Download or read book The Last Lost World written by Lydia Pyne. This book was released on 2013-04-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enthralling scientific and cultural exploration of the Ice Age—from the author of How the Canyon Became Grand From a remarkable father-daughter team comes a dramatic synthesis of science and environmental history—an exploration of the geologic time scale and evolution twinned with the story of how, eventually, we have come to understand our own past. The Pleistocene is the epoch of geologic time closest to our own. The Last Lost World is an inquiry into the conditions that made it, the themes that define it, and the creature that emerged dominant from it. At the same time, it tells the story of how we came to discover and understand this crucial period in the Earth’s history and what meanings it has for today.