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Spanish Edition by Andrew C. Scott (Author), Victoria Eugenia Gordo del Rey (Translator), Josep Ramoneda (Contributor) Format: Kindle Edition
Enormes incendios han devastado amplias áreas del mundo en los últimos años, y se prevé que seguirá ocurriendo lo mismo como resultado del cambio climático. Pero esto no es nada nuevo. Desde los albores de la vida en la Tierra, los incendios a gran escala han desempeñado un papel importante en su configuración. Andrew C. Scott cuenta toda la historia del impacto del fuego en la atmósfera, el clima, la vegetación, la ecología y la evolución de la vida animal y vegetal de nuestro planeta. Ha provocado extinciones masivas y ha impulsado la propagación de plantas y flores. Las pruebas de todo ello se han conservado en forma de carbón fósil, que se ha encontrado en rocas de hace cientos de millones de años en todo el mundo. Estos restos revelan detalles increíblemente pormenorizados de plantas prehistóricas, y nos hablan sobre los climas que se han sucedido a lo largo de la historia de la Tierra. También nos dan una idea de cómo los primeros homínidos y humanos domesticaron y usaron el fuego. Al observar el impacto de los incendios hoy, Scott desea fervientemente que podamos manejarlos mejor en el futuro, ya que los efectos del cambio climático serán cada vez mayores en nuestro mundo.
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2012th Edition
by Rivka Rabinovich(Author), Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser(Author), Lutz Kindler(Author), Naama Goren-Inbar(Author)
Multidisciplinary research on the Early-Middle Pleistocene site of Gesher Benot Ya‘aqov has yielded abundant climatic, environmental, ecological and behavioral records. The 15 archaeological horizons form a sequence of Acheulian occupational episodes on the shore of the paleo-Lake Hula. These enable us to reconstruct numerous aspects of the survival and adaptation of ancient hominins, leading to a better understanding of their evolution and behavior. This book presents the faunal analyses of medium-sized and large mammals, providing taxonomic, taphonomic and actualistic data for the largest faunal assemblages. The study of modes of animal exploitation reveals valuable information on hominin behavior
2007th Edition
This volume presents the work of researchers at many sites spanning the East African Pliocene. The authors take a broad approach that seeks to compare paleoenvironmental and paleoecological patterns across localities and among various taxonomic groups. This volume aims to synthesize large amounts of faunal data, and to present the evolution of East African vertebrates in the context of environmental and climatic changes during the Pliocene.
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by Eric Delson (Editor), Ian Tattersall (Editor), John Van Couvering (Editor), Alison S. Brooks (Editor) Format: Kindle Edition
Praise for the first edition: "The most up-to-date and wide-ranging encyclopedia work on human evolution available."--American Reference Books Annual "For student, researcher, and teacher...the most complete source of basic information on the subject."--Nature "A comprehensive and authoritative source, filling a unique niche...essential to academic libraries...important for large public libraries." --Booklist/RBB
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by Frances D. Burton (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
The association between our ancestors and fire, somewhere around six to four million years ago, had a tremendous impact on human evolution, transforming our earliest human ancestor, a being communicating without speech but with insight, reason, manual dexterity, highly developed social organization, and the capability of experimenting with this new technology. As it first associated with and then began to tame fire, this extraordinary being began to distance itself from its primate relatives, taking a path that would alter its environment, physiology, and self-image. Based on her extensive research with nonhuman primates, anthropologist Frances Burton details the stages of the conquest of fire and the systems it affected. Her study examines the natural occurrence of fire and describes the effects light has on human physiology. She constructs possible variations of our earliest human ancestor and its way of life, utilizing archaeological and anthropological evidence of the earliest human-controlled fires to explore the profound physical and biological impacts fire had on human evolution.
Paperback – January 1, 2000
2010th Edition
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