Origin Africa : a natural history
Origin Africa is a unique introduction to the natural history and evolution of the most misrepresented continent on Earth. Celebrated evolutionary biologist and artist Jonathan Kingdon, a leading expert on the natural history of Africa, tells this extraordinary story as no one else can. Featuring a...
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| Fformat: | Livre numérique |
| Iaith: | Anglais |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press
2023.
Paris : Cyberlibris |
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| Mynediad Ar-lein: | Accès Université Orléans et IFPM |
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Couverture. https://static2.cyberlibris.com/books_upload/136pix/9780691249032.jpg Originally published in Great Britain by William Collins in 2023 Cyberlibris (ScholarVox) Corpus Histoire |
| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
| Edition sous un autre format: | • Origin Africa, a natural history, Jonathan Kingdon, [1st edition], 2023, Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1 volume (vii-472 pages), 978-0-691-22853-2 |
Tabl Cynhwysion:
- What is Africa?
- Gondwana's core
- Dawn and consequences from chance
- Afloat on planet ocean (adrift and heading North)
- Global wobbles and climate change
- Habitats defined by plants
- Emigration and immigration
- Diversity, highs and lows
- Succession
- Diseases and plagues
- Louder, softer, bigger, smaller, faster, slower, duller, brighter
- Behaviour drives morphology
- Ecological elders
- Import and export of primates
- Slow but smart
- The boreal, latitudinal realm
- The austral, longitudinal realm
- Niche-thieves
- Out of Africa and back again, the Banda Strandlopers
- Translating nature
- Mind and memory
- Process as principle