This book focuses on how climatic change during the last fifteen million years--especially the last three million--has affected human evolution and other evolutionary events. Leading evolutionists and physical geologists from all over the world--authorities on such subjects as paleoceanography, palynology, mammalian paleontology, and paleoanthropology--address the relationship between climatic and biotic evolution, presenting and integrating the most up-to-date research in their fields.
Among the subjects discussed are: global and regional climatic changes; tectonism and its effects on...