Dear ECOLOG-L:
The University of California Press is pleased to announce in paperback Twilight of the Mammoths:: Ice Age Extinctions and the Rewilding of America Paul S. Martin is Emeritus Professor of Geosciences, Desert Laboratory, University of Arizona. http://go.ucpress.edu/MartinTwilight "Twilight of the Mammoths is well written and can be easily understood by nonscientists. . . . Natural history enthusiasts will certainly enjoy this book." -_American Scientist_ As recently as 11,000 years ago-"near time" to geologists-mammoths, mastodons, gomphotheres, ground sloths, giant armadillos, native camels and horses, the dire wolf, and many other large mammals roamed North America. In what has become one of science's greatest riddles, these large animals vanished in North and South America around the time humans arrived at the end of the last great ice age. Part paleontological adventure and part memoir, _Twilight of the Mammoths _presents in detail internationally renowned paleoecologist Paul Martin's widely discussed and debated "overkill" hypothesis to explain these mysterious megafauna extinctions. Full information about the book, including <a href="/books/pages/9552/9552.ch02.html">Read Chapter 2, "Overview of Overkill"</a>, is available online: http://go.ucpress.edu/MartinTwilight -- Lolita Guevarra Electronic Marketing Coordinator University of California Press Tel. 510.643.4738 | Fax 510.643.7127 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
