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100 1  Pyne, Lydia 
245 14 The last lost world :|bice ages, human origins, and the 
       invention of the Pleistocene /|cLydia V. Pyne and Stephen 
       J. Pyne. 
264  1 New York :|bViking,|c2012. 
300    x, 306 pages :|billustrations, maps ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages [273]-288) and 
       index. 
505 0  Prologue : Mossel Bay, South Africa -- pt. 1. How the 
       Pleistocene got its ice. Rift ; Ice ; Story -- pt. 2. The 
       great game. Footnotes to Plato ; Out of Africa ; Missing 
       links ; New truths, heresies, superstitions ; The ancients
       and the moderns -- pt. 3. How the Pleistocene lost its 
       tale. The hominin who would be king ; The Anthropocene -- 
       Epilogue : Rift redux. 
520    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. 
650  0 Glacial epoch. 
650  0 Geology, Stratigraphic|yPleistocene. 
650  0 Paleoecology|yPleistocene. 
650  0 Human beings|xOrigin. 
650  0 Human evolution. 
650  0 Paleogeography|yPleistocene. 
650  0 Paleoanthropology|xPhilosophy|xHistory. 
650  0 Science|xPhilosophy|xHistory. 
700 1  Pyne, Stephen J.,|d1949- 
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