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" One of Kirkus Review's Best Nonfiction Books of 2022A deep-time history of animals and humans in North America, by the best-selling and award-winning author of Coyote America.In 1908, near Folsom, New Mexico, a cowboy discovered the remains of a herd of extinct giant bison. By examining flint points embedded in the bones, archeologists later determined that a band of humans had killed and butchered the animals 12,450 years ago. This discovery vastly expanded America's known human history but also revealed the long-standing danger Homo sapiens presented to the continent's evolutionary richness. Distinguished author Dan Flores's ambitious history chronicles the epoch in which humans and animals have coexisted in the wild new world of North America8212 a place shaped both by its own grand evolutionary forces and by momentous arrivals from Asia, Africa, and Europe. With portraits of iconic creatures such as mammoths, horses, wolves, and bison, Flores describes the evolution and historical ecology of North America like never before. The arrival of humans precipitated an extraordinary disruption of this teeming environment. Flores treats humans not as a species apart but as a new animal entering two continents that had never seen our likes before. He shows how our long past as carnivorous hunters helped us settle America, initially establishing a coast-to-coast culture that lasted longer than the present United States. But humanity's success had devastating consequences for other creatures. In telling this epic story, Flores traces the origins of today's Sixth Extinction to the spread of humans around the world,tracks the story of a hundred centuries of Native America,explains how Old World ideologies precipitated 400 years of market-driven slaughter that devastated so many ancient American species,and explores the decline and miraculous recovery of species in recent decades. In thrilling narrative style, informed by genomic science, evolutionary biology, and environmental history, Flores celebrates the astonishing bestiary that arose on our continent and introduces the complex human cultures and individuals who hastened its eradication, studied America's animals, and moved heaven and earth to rescue them. Eons in scope and continental in scale, Wild New World is a sweeping yet intimate Big History of the animal-human story in America. "
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Biographisches: " Dan Flores is A. B. Hammond Professor Emeritus of Western History at the University of Montana. A distinguished historian of the American West, he is the author of the best-selling books Coyote America and American Serengeti . He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico." Rezension(2): "〈a href=http://lj.libraryjournal.com/ target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/libraryjournal_logo.png alt=Library Journal border=0 /〉〈/a〉: May 1, 2022 A distinguished scholar of the U.S. West, Flores ( Coyote America ) surveys human-wildlife interactions across North America, from the emergence of its flora and fauna and the Pleistocene mass extinctions to the impact of white settlement and the decline (and sometimes rescue) of species in recent centuries. Copyright 2022 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission. " Rezension(3): "〈a href=https://www.booklistonline.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/booklist_logo.png alt=Booklist border=0 /〉〈/a〉: October 1, 2022 Award-winning historian Flores (Coyote America, 2016) has produced another terrific book about the wildlife of North America. Diving into deep time, his exploration begins in the Pleistocene epoch, during which newly arrived humans met the megafauna on their new terrain. Flores launches this blend of natural and human history with a discovery made by a Black cowboy in 1908: a mass of fossilized bison, one of which was later found to have a flint point embedded in its rib. Flores then tells the story of how carnivorous humans followed their prey out of Africa, arriving at last in the Western Hemisphere with its bountiful animal populations. What unfolds is a tale of wonder at what was and the pathos of extinction, both ancient and current. Flores writes beautifully of how geology shaped the landscape, of the impact of the spread of humans across the land during the Ice Age and the possibility that these early groups caused mass extinctions, of the new balance between humans and the rest of nature as Native Americans established nations north and south, and the violent changes and losses delivered by European colonizers and industrialization. Enlivened throughout with Flores' own adventures and many photographs, this is an outstanding and invaluable work of popular science. COPYRIGHT(2022) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. "
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