The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us - Stephen Brusatte
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A sweeping and revelatory new history of mammals, illuminating the lost story of the extraordinary family tree that led to us
Though humans claim to rule the Earth, we are the inheritors of a dynasty that has reigned over the planet for nearly 66 million years, through fiery cataclysm and ice ages: the mammals. Our lineage includes saber-toothed tigers, woolly mammoths, armadillos the size of a car, cave bears three times the weight of a grizzly, clever scurriers that outlasted Tyrannosaurus rex, and even other types of humans, like Neanderthals. Indeed humankind and many of the beloved fellow mammals we share the planet with today–lions, whales, dogs–represent only the few survivors of a sprawling and astonishing family tree that has been pruned by time and mass extinctions. How did we get here?
In his acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, American paleontologist Steve Brusatte enchanted readers with his definitive his - tory of the dinosaurs. Now, picking up the narrative in the ashes of the extinction event that doomed T-rex and its kind, Brusatte explores the remarkable story of the family of animals that inherited the Earth–mammals– and brilliantly reveals that their story is every bit as fascinating and complex as that of the dinosaurs.
Beginning with the earliest days of our lineage some 325 million years ago, Brusatte charts how mammals survived the asteroid that claimed the dinosaurs and made the world their own, becoming the astonishingly diverse range of animals that dominate today’s Earth. Brusatte also brings alive the lost worlds mammals inhabited through time, from ice ages to volcanic catastrophes. 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 by one of our finest young researchers, The Rise and Reign of the Mammals illustrates how this incredible history laid the foundation for today’s world, for us, and our future.
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This post has 13 comments with rating of 5/5
August 12th, 2023
Thanks
August 12th, 2023
thanks
August 12th, 2023
Top stuff, rmoor.
August 12th, 2023
66 million years of evolution and it all lead to Trump et al? What a dumb theory.
August 13th, 2023
Splendid rmoor!
August 13th, 2023
Thank you rmoor!
August 13th, 2023
Thanks rmoor. Some of my favorite stuff and this book is new to me.
There’s still some who say the Deccan traps in modern day India, played a part in killing off the dinosaurs.
Most of the mass extinctions on earth have been the hothouse kind. Volcanic traps burning buried carbon which loads the atmosphere with green house gasses triggering global warming, climate change and nastier things like a Canfeild ocean.
There’s been loads of back & forth and egos and bad behaviour by that prick Alvarez and his fanboys over the role of the Deccan traps. It’s been going on and a paper comes out with some geochemical evidence and they claim that this proves their version, then the next year the opposing guys put out their paper. Those scientists are some of the most mean & aggressive people you ever saw. The most deadly mass extinction was the Permian - Siberian traps. No asteroid, just runaway climate change from too many greenhouse gasses puked up and out from the traps burning forests of buried coal.
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*Coal-burning in Siberia led to climate change 250 million years ago*
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“This is ideal ground for researchers seeking an understanding of the Permo-Triassic extinction event, which affected all life on Earth approximately 252 million years ago. During this event, up to 96% of all marine species and 70% of terrestrial vertebrate species became extinct.”
https://phys.org/news/2020-06-coal-burning-siberia-climate-million-years.html
The rate at which the humans have emitted greenhouse gasses is unprecedented. No volcanic traps or asteroid hitting the earth comes close to the rate humans have pumped GHG out. What took volcanic traps thousands to tens of thousands of years to pump out, humans have only taken 275 years and we just broke another record with 103 million barrels of ‘oil’ consumed in one day and China is burning record amounts of coal. Perhaps we should call China a volcanic trap. Death trap methinks. I can’t judge since if you discount the carbon footprints of the big, top 10 militaries, the people of my country use the most energy per capita in the world & air conditioners were rare until the 21st century because they were not really needed. I have A/C in my condo. They don’t allow window models, so I had to buy portable A/C units that I use 4-5 months of the year. Whenever I go on these story telling trips after I hit the submit button it says my comment cannot be published until the bookbay cops or whoever needs to frisk it. Why? I’m the nicest fella this site has ever known. it’s a sin to moderate me.
August 13th, 2023
Trump 2024
August 13th, 2023
Let’s go Brandon
August 14th, 2023
Thank you so much for sharing
August 21st, 2023
Thanks rmoor! I read a book in the 80’s called The Dinosaur Heresies by Bob Bakker. It talked about the dinosaurs dying off due to disease (shifting landmasses) and that they were already in decline having lost a lot of the diversity they had in the Jurassic. Interesting book.
September 29th, 2023
Thanks!
December 28th, 2024
can someone seed thank you
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