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An investigation of the Pleistocene's dual character, as a geologic time, and as a cultural idea. The Pleistocene is the epoch of geologic time closest to our own, a time of ice ages, global migrations, and mass extinctions--of woolly rhinos, mammoths, giant ground sloths, and not least, early species of Homo. It's the world that created ours. But outside that environmental story there exists a parallel narrative that describes how our ideas about the Pleistocene have emerged. This story explains the place of the Pleistocene in shaping intellectual culture, and the role of a rapidly evolving culture in creating the idea of the Pleistocene and in establishing its dimensions. This second story addresses how the epoch, its Earth-shaping events, and its creatures, both those that survived and those that disappeared, helped kindle new sciences and a new origins story as the sciences split from the humanities as a way of looking at the past.--From publisher description. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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The difficulty with this book was its language--it is written in a very flowing style, but with such an advanced vocabulary that it made it very difficult to read. After finishing the book I still wasn't quite sure what it had been trying to tell me, other than that humanity has been trying to create its own story, from prehistory through the present, from the pieces of the past that it discovers. ( )