ONCE & FUTURE GIANTS C

ONCE & FUTURE GIANTS C

LEVY

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Editorial:
Oxford University Press
Año de edición:
2013
Materia
Ecología, la biosfera
ISBN:
9780195370126

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At the close of the last Ice Age--right as the first humans reached the Americas--a whole menagerie of giant beasts vanished forever. In Once and Future Giants, Sharon Levy argues that understanding this mass extinction will be critical to the protection of threatened species worldwide.

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