The Eternal Frontier
A paleontologist offers an ecological tour of North America, from the asteroid strike that killed the dinosaurs sixty-five million years ago to the present.
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What Hacker News says
- I thought The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples by Tim Flannery was very good. The book actually covers a long timespan. It begins with the Chicxulub meteor impact 66 million years BP and ends with the present time.
Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0802138888/
- I heard the story [1] that when people where able to cross the bering street due to the lower sea level, they could not proceed from Alaska due to the massive ice shield and when the shield was gone, the bering street was closed again, a mechanism described to be similar to a revolving door.
[1] Tim Flannery (2001), The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and its Peoples
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