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| View Larger Image | The Call of Distant Mammoths: Why The Ice Age Mammals Disappeared | Hardcoverby Peter D. Ward (Author)
| List Price: | $29.95 | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | Hardcover | | Publisher: | Springer | | Edition: | 1st Edition | | Page Count: | 241 Pages | | Publication Date: | April 01, 1997 | | Sales Rank: | 1,489,998st |
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Product Description
This compelling book explores the reasons for the mammoths' extinction, such as climate change and human hunting, and provides a tour of mass extinctions through earth's history, including dinosaurs. Brilliantly written, the book is an engaging exploration of the history of life and the importance of humanity as an evolutionary force. 30 illus. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 3.5 based on 11 reviews)
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An Intrigruing Possibility by Ann B. Keller (Cleveland, OH USA)  4 Stars
December 05, 2009
Everyone knows that the last ice age killed the mastodons and mammoths. Massive climate changes apparently altered their sources of food, the weather was difficult to adapt to and these mega mammals became extinct as a result of these powerful forces. But what if we are wrong in these assumptions?
Peter D. Ward instructs us to search elsewhere for the true culprit. To learn the truth, Ward leads us through several mass extinctions in Earth's history, the demise of the mightiest of dinosaurs and the unceasing advance of the Clovis people and other groups of early man. On every continent, the great mammals disappeared shortly after the arrival of man. Coincidence? The author does not think so.
On top of this, some species seem to go into "protective mode" if their survival seems unlikely. For example, when modern elephants are threatened, they produce less offspring, not more. They've even been known to shove juveniles away from shrinking waterholes so that the adult elephants may drink, thus helping to ensure the survival of viable males and females capable of continuing the species. Could ancient mega mammals have exhibited similar behavior? If waves of hunters were added to this sad equation, might not mammoths and other large creatures have reached the overkill threshold, the point from which their species could never recover?
If so, how does this bode well for our future and the continuation of hundreds of species into the next century or millenium? Is it already too late? Read on, dear reader, read on and discover the true villain in this modern day mystery.
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I Bet Al Gore read this book to: Complete Fantasy by GoldNER (FL. USA)  5 Stars
July 10, 2007
Ok, I Will just give my thought on this book because anyone who understands Science and God will know this book is crap! Just like how the Government is trying to scare the world into Global Warming Terror
(REMEMBER Y2K) To profit themsleves. We may have Global warming but anyone who has studied the history of the Ice Ages (humans didn't pollute in the mammoth days)and has also studied the melting ice caps on mars will realize that Global warming is far from being man made. We may have contributed to it, but we didn't cause it. Global warming is a cycle the earth goes through. We have been blessed the last few years with climate stability, but we live in an unstable world that does change. We are the generation that will see that change and the upcoming cycle occur.
Don't listen to eveything Mr,Gore and these unresearched books try to teach you. Listen to God and learn your facts.
If you wanna know what killed the Mammoths-->read up on Noahs Flood and really study it hard. Also read the Book of Job and Enoch--->Then apply some Science knowledge to it and you will have your answer to what killed the Mammoths
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Fine fairy tale but scientific rubbish by Fred (US)  1 Stars
March 21, 2005
What a disppointment. The author, a geologist, falls flat in this book. He strays into areas of expertise with grand claims and zero proof. He does not refer to his ideas as theories but as fact. Aside from the joy ride around good questions, the book is filled with extreme political correctness... Why are SUV's, Republicans, and present day humans always the ones that are to blame for extinctions that happened thousands of years ago (now you get an idea of what light that this book was written in). Pure rubbish as a science book. Great for "politically correctness" fans.
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Zero Stars
by Holy Olio (Grand Rapids, MI USA) 1 Stars
March 07, 2003
It remains mysterious that humans are held to be the cause of any kind of phenomenon that is otherwise unexplainable within a uniformitarian framework. The mammoths went extinct precisely where they'd have had no food supply to build their population to such high levels, nor indeed to support so much as a herd.In other words, they didn't go extinct because of conditions that exist today, but they did go extinct due to natural conditions. And not due to fictional bands of ravenous human hunters.This book should appeal to the knee-jerk reactionaries who sanctimoniously hand down judgments about the lifestyles of the rest of us. This book is worth less than fossilized mammoth dung.
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Ward nailed it! by James Robert Smith (Matthews, NC United States) 5 Stars
April 17, 2002
Some truths are self-evident. That human beings are likely responsible for the mass extinctions of the Pleistocene megafauna is one of these truths. That we are still in the process of exterminating the remnants of the Pleistocene megafauna is another of these truths.Mr. Ward, in addition to being a fine scholar, is also a very talented writer who adds a generous touch of humanity to what could have been a very dry and intellectual read. I highly recommend this book. It's eye-opening, sometimes frightening, but largely on target. All in all, it's the best book on the disappearance of our era's megafauna since Leakey's THE FIFTH EXTINCTION, and the two books will share shelf space in my office.
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