ISBN: 9780062951519
Editorial: Mariner Books
Autor: Brusatte, Steve
Año de edición: 2022
N° Paginas: 528
Tipo de pasta: Pasta dura
Descripción: Críticas “Scintillating. ... Brusatte’s mastery of his field, formidable explanatory powers and engaging style have combined to produce a masterpiece of science writing for the lay reader. I would add that you’ll find Rise and Fall fascinating even if you don’t give a damn about dinosaurs—but first, show me someone who doesn’t give a damn about dinosaurs.” -- Washington Post“The ultimate dinosaur biography. … Despite our cultural obsession with dinosaurs, there is much to their story that has been left untold until now. … Brusatte weaves together the origins of dinosaurs, their rise to global dominance and their dramatic demise. He anchors the tale in riveting fossil discoveries from around the globe and his own love affair with these remarkable life-forms.” -- Scientific American“If John McPhee’s love affair with rocks in Annals of the Former World floats your boat… you’re going to love The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs.Brusatte skillfully brings dead dino bones to life as he shares—no, gushes about—his personal journey as a young fossil hunter and the people he’s met along the way. … The geek in me loves the tsunami of fine details flooding the page, written in the breezy style of a rising star millennial scientist. … The beauty of this book lies in the details... and in the stories of the scientists who dig them up. [The] emotional connection, and Brusatte’s collection of personal stories and characters, make his book special.” -- New York Times Book Review“Vivid. … This is scientific storytelling at its most visceral, striding with the beasts through their Triassic dawn, Jurassic dominance and abrupt demise.” -- Nature“The Science Book of the Year.” -- Sunday Times (London) Renowned paleontologist and New York Times bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs Steve Brusatte charts the extraordinary story of the dinosaurs' successor: mammals, which emerged from the shadows to rule the Earth.In his acclaimed and bestselling The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs (“A masterpiece of science writing.” —Washington Post), Steve Brusatte, “one of the stars of modern paleontology” (National Geographic), enchanted readers with his definitive history of the dinosaurs. Now, picking up the story in the ashes of the extinction event that doomed T-rex and his kind, Brusatte explores the remarkable story of the family of animals that inherited the Earth: mammals. Though mammals are seemingly familiar to us, Brusatte brilliantly reveals that their story is as fascinating and complex as dinosaurs.Beginning with the earliest days of the mammal lineage some 200 million years ago, Brusatte charts how mammals survived the asteroid that claimed the dinosaurs and made the world their own, becoming the furry animals that we know, love, and sometimes fear. The mammals we share the planet with today, though, are simply the few survivors of a once-verdant family tree, which has been pruned by time and mass extinctions. Saber-toothed cats, wooly mammoths, armadillos the size of a car, and bears three times the weight of a grizzly are but a few of the creatures we learn about along the way. The story concludes, of course with us—human beings—a mammal species that has so thoroughly dominated the Earth that we ourselves have triggered an extinction event that has claimed an estimated 80% of wild mammals in the last century.Brusatte also brings alive the lost worlds mammals inhabited over the past 66 million years, from ice ages to volcanic cataclysms. Entwined in this story is the detective work he and other scientists have done to piece together our understanding using fossil clues and cutting-edge technology. A sterling example of scientific storytelling that is sure to be an instant classic, The Rise and Fall of the Mammals illustrates how this incredible history laid the foundation for today’s world, for us, and our future. Biografía del autor Steve Brusatte is a paleontologist who hunts an
- Idioma: Inglés
- Autor: Brusatte, Steve
- Editorial: Mariner Books
- N° Paginas: 528
- Tipo de pasta: Pasta dura
- Envío: Desde EE.UU.
