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Terra: our 100-million-year-old ecosystem--and the threats that now put it at risk
Terra: our 100-million-year-old ecosystem--and the threats that now put it at risk
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Novacek, Michael J
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication Date
2007
Language
English
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Peabody Main - Adult Nonfiction
QE 721.2 .E97 N68 2007
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Prologue: The hyena
pt. one: The way of the world
A creature in the forest
Lush life
Ephemeral life
Elephants, dung beetles, and ecosystems
Evolution: life through a new lens
pt. two: The world becomes modern
Ancient ground
Imperial collapse
The dinosaurs of middle Earth
A flower in the forest
The Garden of delights
Toward a new ecosystem
Dinosaur Camelot
pt. three: death and resurrection
A puzzling catastrophe
The era after
pt. four: Terra Humana
Who they were
The exterminators
The cultivators
Land rush
Dark forces
The waste of a world
Heat wave
Future world.
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Effect of human beings on
Environmental degradation
Evolution (Biology)
Extinction (Biology)
Nature
Nature -- Effect of human beings on
Paleontology
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9780374273255
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