Pleistocene

Marris does this by delving into some key aspects of the new age of ecological restoration: Pleistocene rewilding, assisted migration, exotic species, novel ecosystems, and designer ecosystems. Her chapters on all of these topics have the same strengths and weaknesses. While Marris presents both sides of the debates surrounding these subjects, she…

Chapter Seven: The authors job as a Wildlife Conservation Department director changed his focus from extinct species to protecting the living ones. It reminded him of the species richness of the earth. Ecologists have three levels of this diversity. These measurements are the alpha, the beta and the gamma. The alpha diversity tells how many species are in an ecological community. The beta diversity compares that to the nearby communities that have different physical characteristics.…

questions of why societies differentiate on different parts of the world in his novel, Guns, Germs and Steel. In the words of Diamond, “GGS seeks to understand the broad pattern of intercontinental differences among human societies, from the end of the Pleistocene to Columbus’s voyage in AD 1492 (2003, p.829). Throughout his book he makes analyzations that are worth noting and his novel is viewed as a classic example of determinism, despite he, himself, viewing the term as “baggage-laden” and a…

New). Although Denisovans took a more easterly/southern route compared to Neanderthals when leaving Africa. Exploring and settling regions in Central and SE Asia, stretching as far north as Siberia. Denisovans used land bridges exposed during the Pleistocene era, to gain access to regions as far south as Papua New Guinea and Australia. Although recent DNA findings suggest, Denisovans resided in Spain and Western Europe…

effects Prehistoric Native Americans had on the Eastern Kentucky landscape through paleoecological sequence. Specially addressing how Prehistoric Native American populations bred and selected for plant-food resources in Eastern Kentucky during the Pleistocene and early Holocene (Delcourt, 1998). 36 radiocarbon-dated, botanical assemblages, mostly charcoal, obtained from Cloudsplitter Rockshelter and the Cold Oak Shelter point toward specific evidence of Native American influence upon the…

“ring” like bells（1）, not all of them endless displays of wildflowers (2), change into different colors, sometimes appears as veins of brown and red throughout the rock, and how it forms are considered as the ringing rock’s four mystery natures from now and on. It was said ,Ringing Rocks Park that situated near the small Delaware River community of Upper Black Eddy possesses this “ringing” quality,was the largest boulder field in Pennsylvania . The ring human can hear is not the first sound, but…

city’s geographical location and land features. In Hawkshaw: Prehistory and History in an Urban Neighborhood in Pensacola, Florida, the environmental setting is laid bare. A major land shaping force in the area is the Gulf of Mexico. During the Pleistocene Era, the sea level was 300 feet lower than it is today due to “glacial episodes.” Due to the low sea level, streams and rivers extended far out to the continental shelf, and cut deeper into their valleys. Sand would flow into these crevices…

The bison bonasus has lived among mankind for 2 million years. It originated from the bison palaeosinis in the early pleistocene in Southern Asia. Bison are large, even-toed ungulates living within the subfamily bovinus. They live in grassland ecosystems and roamed the grassland in large herds long ago. In the early 1800’s the population of the bison was in the tens of millions. By the end of that century there were fewer than 1000. The bison is a very large land mammal that can grow up to 9…

distinct spear points associated with the Clovis culture, one of the earliest known Paleo-Indian cultures in North America. These projectile points, characterized by their unique shape, were used for hunting mammoths and other megafauna during the Pleistocene…

The bonobo (Pan paniscus), formerly called the pygmy chimpanzee and less often, the dwarf chimpanzee, is an endangered great ape and one of the two species making up the genus Pan; the other is Pan Troglodytes, or the common chimpanzee. Although the name "chimpanzee" is sometimes used to refer to both species together, it is usually understood as referring to the common chimpanzee, whereas Pan paniscus is usually referred to as the bonobo. Fossils of Pan species were not described until…