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Megafauna: Giant Beasts of Pleistocene South America (Life of the Past)

Megafauna: Giant Beasts of Pleistocene South America (Life of the Past)

byRichard A. Fariรฑa
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Reviewed in the United States ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ on June 7, 2022
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3.0 out of 5 starscouldn't get into it
Reviewed in the United States ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ 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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Susie W.
4.0 out of 5 stars This is a very scholarly work.
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I had trouble reading this book because it is full of anatomical terms I wasnโ€™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
5.0 out of 5 stars Good book on pleistocene mammals
Reviewed in the United States ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ 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 Fariรฑa, 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
5.0 out of 5 stars Megafauna: Giant Beasts of Pleistocene South America
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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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Reviewed in the United States ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ on February 8, 2020
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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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Edouard Paiva
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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
5.0 out of 5 stars views on megafauna other than N.Americas
Reviewed in the United States ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ 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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Good service,needed the book for a gift, The person I gave it to was happy, happy happy happy und hat sich gefreut
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