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# After the Dinosaurs: The Age of Mammals (Life of the Past) Hardcover – Download: Adobe Reader, July 13, 2006

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## Customer Reviews

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    Most interesting and informative
  

*by T***Y on Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2021*

A little dull and too much detail in places, but overall a most informative book. It gets into the dinosaurs, of the Mesozoic era,  and their demise, except for non-avjan dinosaurs (birds). The author discusses the three debatable reasons for the dinosaurs, and other animals, extinctions: the bolide impact at Chicxalub, the volcanism from the Deccan traos and ses levels dropping.Then it goes into the Tertiary Period and its epochs, starting 65 Ma (million years ago), explaining the plants and animals and  climate and geography of the continents and water bodies. Ice ages and greenhouse ages come and go throughout the Tertiary. Animals evolve. Niches are filled by the vacancies of dinosaurs, on land, and huge ocean beasts like mosasaurs and pleisiosaurs in the ocean. During the Eocene Epoch, for instance, a hoofed quadrapedal herbivore migrated into the ocean, changing over millions of years into whales. Early whales had rudimentary hind limbs, which disappeared as whales evolved to what we have today.Horses, camels, rhinos originated in North America. I know from personal experience about rhinos and camels, as I have excavated them  in Nebraska in a time horizon bed of about 11 Ma.The Milankovitch cycles of the Earth are covered. They were derived to figure out if the Earth's climate could be correlated with them. There's the 100,000 year eccentricity cycle of our planet's yearly journey around the sun. The orbit is not a circle but an ellipse which varies in its shape. There's also the tilt degree of the Earth, varying from 21.5 to 24.5 over a period of some 41,000 years. Finally there's the precession of the Earth with a cycle of about 21,000 years.The author takes us up into the Hominidae family, which includes our ancestors. The earliest member we know of dates back 6-7 Ma. Tje intermediaries, leading up to our own species, are discussed.The author ends the book with a dire scenario and warning. The Sixth Extinction, he calls it. We humans are over populating the planet, and over exploiting its resources. Forests are being cut down. Pollution is rampant. Animals are going extinct at an alarming rate. The climate could be getting so warm that sea levels will rise by hundreds of meters.An excellent book.

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    Very good but slow going for a layman
  

*by C***E on Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2013*

First, I thought the book was very good with a couple of caveats that I mention below. While not a criticism, the book seems targeted to a very small audience - paleontologists and other biologists who aren't experts in the evolution of mammals. From the title you might expect a book kinder to the non-professional. You can get a lot from this book but it took real work for me to finish it. I had my laptop on most of the time while reading so that I could find the information I needed to understand fully the information. Knowing the living orders of mammals (extinct too is even better) is a huge help. I knew about half before starting the book. It is possible to figure out many of the orders just from the text, but you miss a lot I think. The book is very thorough and covers all the continents (except, I think, Antarctica) and the entire span of the Cenozoic (65 my). I especially liked the way that Prothero integrates plate tectonics, ocean currents, climate and paleoecology to explain the determinant factors in mammal evolution in the Cenozoic.The only flaw in my opinion is the near absence of supplemental information that would have made it much easier to take full advantage of all the information in the book. In a book that strongly emphasizes the role of plate tectonics and land bridges in the evolution of mammals, there are only a very few maps. A short glossary and a list of the extinct and living orders of mammals would have been a big help to the lay reader. One aspect of the book I found a little odd was the scorn heaped on his fellow paleontologists who maintain that the K-T boundary event caused a catastrophic extinction of life on earth.  Prothero believes the extent of the extinction event is greatly exaggerated. It is apparently still a very emotional debate for many paleontologists.

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    Awful, out of date
  

*by V***O on Reviewed in the United States on July 9, 2022*

This is a fascinating topic and the mammals portion is pretty good.BUT - dismissing the impact reality, relegating it to 'well it happened but who cares?' status - flies in the face of the most recent evidence.Yes, benthic creatures survived just fine.  Of course.  And frogs survived fire and acid rain.  But frogs can get under cover for long periods, to get thru the immediate holocaust.The old Deccan traps idea is just that -old.  They were bubbling for half a million to 1.5 million years.  There is so much evidence that the world changed much, much faster than that!Give this one a miss.  When someone gets the stuff I know about this hideously wrong, I just don't trust what they say that I can't verify the accuracy of.

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