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Prehistoric Past Revealed: The Four Billion Year History of Life on Earth Hardcover – December 31, 2003
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Using timelines, diagrams, sidebar discussions, and breaking down complex ideas into digestible topics, Palmer shows how it has been possible to recover the story of life from the petrified remains of shells and bones scattered through rock strata. He takes us from the present day gradually back into the "terra incognita" of the deep past with its extinct life forms, tracing human ancestry back by centering his discussion around internationally famous fossil sites. Each site reveals another episode in the history of life, as Palmer tells how the environment and life of the time have been reconstructed from its rocks and fossil remains. As it reveals the inner secrets of the Earth, Prehistoric Past Revealed also shows how these discoveries have irrevocably changed our worldview.
- Print length176 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherCalifornia-Princeton
- Publication dateDecember 31, 2003
- Dimensions8.75 x 1 x 13.25 inches
- ISBN-100520241053
- ISBN-13978-0520241053
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- Publisher : California-Princeton; First Edition (December 31, 2003)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 176 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0520241053
- ISBN-13 : 978-0520241053
- Item Weight : 2.3 pounds
- Dimensions : 8.75 x 1 x 13.25 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #7,175,985 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A typical example in Chapter 2 is about the the end of the mammoths circa 2,800 BC and the author says....
"Seemingly blind to what they were doing, humans continued to decimate the survivors (mammoths) until today's impoverished fauna was 'achieved'."
Palmer maintains that the deluge, or Noah's flood, probably didn't happen (God help us, it couldn't have, because it says so in the Bible), but then goes on twice to say that numbers of mammoths are found dead in waterholes and he "assumes" that they all fell in trying to get a drink. I am still laughing through my tears.
Don't bother buying this rubbish unless you want to regress to Neanderthal.