Download The Last Lost World: Ice Ages, Human Origins, and the Invention of the Pleistocene AudioBook Free
An enlightening analysis of the Pleistocene's dual identity as a geologic time - as a cultural idea. The Pleistocene is the epoch of geologic time closest to your own. It's a period of ice age range, global migrations, and mass extinctions - of woolly rhinos, mammoths, massive ground sloths, rather than least early types of Homo. It's the world that created ours. But outside that environmental story there is a parallel narrative that identifies how our ideas about the Pleistocene have emerged. This story talks about the area of the Pleistocene in shaping intellectual culture, and the role of your rapidly changing culture in creating the thought of the Pleistocene and in establishing its dimensions. This second story addresses the way the epoch, its Earth-shaping occasions, and its animals, both those that survived and those that disappeared, helped kindle new sciences and a new origins story as the sciences separated from the humanities as a way of considering the past. Inevitably, it's the story of the way the dominating creature to emerge from the frost-and-fire world of the Pleistocene emerged to understand its place in the plan of things. A remarkable synthesis of research and record, The Last Lost World identifies the world that made our modern one.
