Age of Mammals [Paperback] [Jan 01, 1971] Kurten, B.

Age of Mammals

Science & Math

Björn Kurtén

Biological Sciences

Columbia University of Press

From the book jacket: "Here is the long-awaited guide to the Blancan and Pleistocene mammal species of North America. Illustrated with maps and tables, faunal restorations, and line drawings of teeth, skulls, and limb bones, "Pleistocene Mammals of North America" provides a coherent picture of the origin, evolution, and distribution of North American mammals in the period from 3,000,000 to 8,000 years before the present."

Pleistocene Mammals of North America

Elaine Anderson

Columbia University Press

Uses comparative anatomy and molecular biology to show how modern humans evolved from earlier primates, describes the life of Neanderthals, and speculates on the further evolution of people

Our Earliest Ancestors

Politics & Social Sciences

Anthropology

The Ice Age

Sports & Outdoors

Biographies

Hart-Davis

Kurten draws on recent anthropological discoveries and his vivid imagination to create a compelling tale of life thirty-five thousand years ago, telling the story of Tiger as he seeks revenge for a savage attack on his tribe

Dance of the Tiger : A Novel of the Ice Age

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

ABACUS +

Björn Kurtén's compelling novel gives the reader a detailed picture of life 35,000 years ago in Western Europe. One of the world's leading scholars of Ice Age fauna, Kurtén fuses extraordinary knowledge and imagination in this vivid evocation of our deepest past. This novel illuminates the lives of the humans who left us magnificent paintings in the caves of France and Spain.

Dance of the Tiger: A Novel of the Ice Age

Contemporary

University of California Press

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