| 书目名称 | History of Terrestrial Mammals in South America |
| 副标题 | How South American M |
| 编辑 | Thomas Defler |
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| 概述 | Includes hundreds of illustrations to give a better idea of how South American fauna must have looked like.Coherently covers the changes and evolution of South American terrestrial mammals throughout |
| 丛书名称 | Topics in Geobiology |
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| 描述 | .This book takes a non-technical approach in covering the evolution of South American mammalian fauna throughout geological history, and discusses how South America has changed due to mammalian invasions. Unlike other works on the subject, this book attempts to answer several crucial questions that often go unmentioned together in one cohesive monograph. What was the fauna like before the American interchange? What were the origins of the now-extinct groups when northern species arrived and out-competed them? How did the modern mammalian fauna come into being with such disparate animal groups? This information is given from a historical perspective throughout the book‘s 15 chapters, and is presented in an easily graspable fashion by mostly avoiding technical language. The book is written for academics, scientists and scholars engaged in paleontology, zoology and evolutionary biology, but may also appealto a larger audience of general readers interested in mammalian evolution. .The book begins with an introduction, describing the tools necessary to interpret the evolutionary history of South American mammals in geological terms and some of the early people who helped found South Ame |
| 出版日期 | Book 2019 |
| 关键词 | South American paleobiology; Mammalian evolution; Evolution of South American mammals; Ancient South Am |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98449-0 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-98449-0Series ISSN 0275-0120 |
| issn_series | 0275-0120 |
| copyright | Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 |
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