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Record #142920:
The call of the distant mammoths: why the ice age mammals disappeared / Peter D. Ward.
Title: | The call of the distant mammoths: why the ice age mammals disappeared / Peter D. Ward. |
Author(s): | Ward, Peter D. |
Date: | 1997. |
Publisher: | New York: Copernicus |
Abstract: | Popular exposition of current understanding of causes of mass extinction of large mammals following end of ice age. Argues strongly in favour of humant hunting rather than climatic change as chief culprit. |
Keywords: | 551.336 -- Ice ages. 56 -- Palaeontology. 599.61 -- Proboscidea: Mammuthus primigenius. 551.79 -- Quaternary. H6 -- Zoology: mammals. |
Location(s): | SCO: SPRI-SHF: 551.336 : 551.79 |
ISBN: | 0387949151 |
SPRI record no.: | 142920 |
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