5/30/2023 0 Comments Evernote login crashes koboIn his acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs-hailed as “the ultimate dinosaur biography” by Scientific American-American paleontologist Steve Brusatte enchanted readers with his definitive his - tory of the dinosaurs. Indeed humankind and many of the beloved fellow mammals we share the planet with today-lions, whales, dogs-represent only the few survivors of a sprawling and astonishing family tree that has been pruned by time and mass extinctions. Our lineage includes saber-toothed tigers, woolly mammoths, armadillos the size of a car, cave bears three times the weight of a grizzly, clever scurriers that outlasted Tyrannosaurus rex, and even other types of humans, like Neanderthals. ![]() We humans are the inheritors of a dynasty that has reigned over the planet for nearly 66 million years, through fiery cataclysm and ice ages: the mammals. New from the author of the acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs ("A masterpiece of science writing" - Washington Post) and “one of the stars of modern paleontology” ( National Geographic), a sweeping and revelatory history of mammals, illuminating the lost story of the extraordinary family tree that led to us
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