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9780226389424: Evolution & Environment in Tropical America
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ISBN 10: 0226389421 ISBN 13: 9780226389424
Casa editrice: Univ of Chicago Pr, 1996

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How were the tropical Americas formed? This ambitious volume draws on extensive, multidisciplinary research to develop new views of the geological formation of the isthmus linking North and South America and of the major environmental changes that reshaped the Neotropics to create its present-day marine and terrestrial ecosystems.

Recent discoveries show that dramatic changes in climate and ocean circulation can occur very quickly, and that ecological communities respond just as rapidly. Abrupt changes in the composition of fossil assemblages, formerly dismissed as artifacts of a poor fossil record, now are seen as accurate records of swift changes in the composition of ocean communities.

The twenty-four contributors use current work in paleontology, geology, oceanography, anthropology, ecology, and evolution to paint this challenging portrait of rapid environmental and evolutionary change. Their conclusions argue for a revision of existing interpretations of the fossil record and the processes--including invading Eurasian peoples--that have produced it.


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How were the tropical Americas formed? This volume draws on extensive, multidisciplinary research in its attempt to develop new views of the geological formation of the isthmus linking North and South America, and of the major environmental changes that reshaped the Neotropics to create its present-day marine and terrestrial ecosystems. The 24 contributors use current work in paleontology, geology, oceanography, anthropology, ecology and evolution to form this argument of rapid environmental and evolutionary change. Their conclusions seek a revision of existing interpretations of the fossil record and the processes - including invading Eurasian peoples - that have produced it.

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Editore
Univ of Chicago Pr
Data di pubblicazione
1996
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0226389421
ISBN 13 
9780226389424
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
425
Redattore
Jackson Jeremy B. C., Budd Ann F., Coates Anthony G.
Contatto del produttore
The University of Chicago Press
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