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Stephen

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 7, 2022

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Jacob

couldn't get into it

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 8, 2020

It was clear the author was knowledgeable regarding the material. The subject prehistoric megafauna has interested me for some time but this book didn't hold my interest. I put it down after reading about a fourth of it.

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Stephen

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 7, 2022

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Susie W.

This is a very scholarly work.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 20, 2020

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I had trouble reading this book because it is full of anatomical terms I wasn’t familiar with. I recommend having a medical dictionary close at hand so compound words can be looked up. Those who are familiar with paleontology should not have trouble at all.

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tyrannomyrmex

Good book on pleistocene mammals

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 9, 2013

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South America was isolated for a long time in the Cenozoic. This explains, in part, the rich and diverse fauna that evolved only in this continent. Despite this, there are few books dealing with the history of the South American fauna or flora. The book of Pleistocene mammals of Fariña, Vizcaino and De Iuliis is a notable exception. In its 9 chapters and 436 pages the authors introduce us to the world of paleontology, geology and ecology in the subcontinent, the "great" exchange of Pleistocene fauna, and other issues such as physics of giants, paleoecology and extinctions. For those interested in history and biogeography of South America, and the mammals in particular, this is a good book plenty on information, and one more addition to the excellent series of paleobiology of Indiana University Press.

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P. Nicholson

Megafauna: Giant Beasts of Pleistocene South America

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 29, 2013

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What we now call South America was for millions of years an isolated continent, much like Australia today where animal populations, largely Marsupial, without competing influences from any adjoining land masses evolved in unique and amazing ways and attained great sizes in some cases. This book explores the fossil record left behind by these animals which went into rapid decline once South America collided with the North American land mass and the Central American land bridge formed affording Mammalian species that evolved in other places to invade and in most cases cause the extinction of the Marsupial species.

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Jacob

couldn't get into it

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Edouard Paiva

Megafauna: Giant Beast of Pleistocene South America

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 14, 2013

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The truth is that I expected more from this book, it doesn't have complete information detailed about the size of some of the Giants that lived in South America.

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Mary Anne Richards

views on megafauna other than N.Americas

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 30, 2013

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Another great view of the large animals of the last ice age. Your have to look at other continents to get a good view of the large mammals of the last ice age not to mention the terror birds of S. America.

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