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The Last Lost World
Ice Ages, Human Origins, and the Invention of the Pleistocene
By Pyne, Lydia V. & Pyne, Stephen J.
- ISBN
- 9780670023639
- Publisher
- Viking
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Reviewed on May 1, 2012 | Science and Technology
Stephen Pyne (history, Arizona State Univ.; Voice and Vision: A Guide to Writing History and Other Serious Nonfiction) and his daughter Lydia (lecturer, history of science, Drexel Univ.) reveal how Africa served as a continental refugium during the Pleistocene era. Least affected by ice, most adapted to hominids, Africa lost less than 25 percent of its megafauna. In contrast, South America, whos...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
