03128cam a2200325 4500 531511868 TxAuBib 20210910120000.0 ||||||s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780802146953 0802146953 B07MHJRF98 Amazon a6a29006-0f29-4faa-9011-f05e36ec4001 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 4524882 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Flannery, Tim. Europe [Libby] : A Natural History. Grove Atlantic, 2019. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 5612kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. History. Nature. Nonfiction. HTML:<p><b>A tale of cave bears and comet strikes and a hundred million years of history by the bestselling author of <i>Here on Earth</i>: "Marvelous."—<i>Publishers Weekly</i> (starred review)</b><br /> In <i>Europe: A Natural History</i>, world-renowned scientist, explorer, and conservationist Tim Flannery applies the eloquent interdisciplinary approach he used in his ecological histories of Australia and North America to the story of Europe. He begins 100 million years ago, when the continents of Asia, North America, and Africa interacted to create an island archipelago that would later become the Europe we know today. It was on these ancient tropical lands that the first distinctly European organisms evolved. Flannery teaches us about Europe's midwife toad, which has endured since the continent's beginning, while elephants, crocodiles, and giant sharks have come and gone. He explores the monumental changes wrought by the devastating comet strike and shows how rapid atmospheric shifts transformed the European archipelago into a single landmass during the Eocene.<br /> As the story moves through millions of years of evolutionary history, Flannery eventually turns to our own species, describing the immense impact humans had on the continent's flora and fauna—within 30,000 years of our arrival in Europe, the woolly rhino, the cave bear, and the giant elk, among others, would disappear completely. The story continues right up to the present, as Flannery describes Europe's leading role in wildlife restoration, and then looks ahead to ponder the continent's future: with advancements in gene editing technology, European scientists are working to recreate some of the continent's lost creatures, such as the great ox of Europe's primeval forests and even the woolly mammoth.</p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=a6a29006-0f29-4faa-9011-f05e36ec4001&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=a6a29006-0f29-4faa-9011-f05e36ec4001&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=a6a29006-0f29-4faa-9011-f05e36ec4001&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)