THE MOST STRIKING FIGURE IN the Peabody's Age of Mammals comes toward the end, among the Ice Age's brilliant foliage.
An edition of Beasts of Eden
(2003)
Beasts of Eden
walking whales, dawn horses, and other enigmas of mammal evolution
by David Rains Wallace
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2005, University of California Press
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Table of Contents
Prologue. the fresco and the fossil
Pachyderms in the catacombs
Dr. Jekyll and the Stonesfield jaws
The origin of mammals
The noblest conquest
Terrible horns and heavy feet
Mr. Megatherium versus professor Mylodon
Fire beasts of the antipodes
Titans on parade
Five-toed horses and missing links
The invisible dawn man
A Bonaparte of beasts
Love and theory
Simpson's Cynodont-to-Smilodon synthesis
Shifting ground
Dissolving ancestries
Exploding faunas
The revenge of the shell hunters
Simpson redivivus
Winds thieves of the Kyzylkum
The serpent's offering
Anthropoid leapfrog
Epilogue: Cenozoic parks.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-314) and index.
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