The Eternal Frontier
by Tim F. Flannery · first published 2002
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A paleontologist offers an ecological tour of North America, from the asteroid strike that killed the dinosaurs sixty-five million years ago to the present.
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I thought The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples by Tim Flannery was very good. The book actually covers a long timespan. It begins with the Chicxulub meteor impact 66 million years BP and ends…
on “Woolly Mammoth Revival” ↗…proceed from Alaska due to the massive ice shield and when the shield was gone, the bering street was closed again, a mechanism described to be similar to a revolving door. [1] Tim Flannery (2001), The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and its Peoples
on “The first humans arrived in North America a lot earlier than believed” ↗