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1 online resource (1 audio file (600 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Walter Dixon. |
| Summary |
An enlightening investigation of the Pleistocene's dual character as a geologic time-and as a cultural idea The Pleistocene is the epoch of geologic time closest to our own. It's a time of ice ages, global migrations, and mass extinctions-of woolly rhinos, mammoths, giant ground sloths, and not least early species of Homo. It's the world that created ours. But outside that environmental story there exists a parallel narrative that describes how our ideas about the Pleistocene have emerged. This story explains the place of the Pleistocene in shaping intellectual culture, and the role of a rapidly evolving culture in creating the idea of the Pleistocene and in establishing its dimensions. This second story addresses how the epoch, its Earth-shaping events, and its creatures, both those that survived and those that disappeared, helped kindle new sciences and a new origins story as the sciences split from the humanities as a way of looking at the past. Ultimately, it is the story of how the dominant creature to emerge from the frost-and-fire world of the Pleistocene came to understand its place in the scheme of things. A remarkable synthesis of science and history, The Last Lost World describes the world that made our modern one. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Geology, Stratigraphic -- Pleistocene.
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Paleogeography -- Pleistocene.
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| Added Author |
Pyne, Stephen J., 1949-
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Dixon, Walter.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781469085418 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1469085410 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT11399357 |
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