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137284 |
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ISI Library, Kolkata |
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20161205155229.0 |
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150915s2015 nyu 000 0 eng |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9783319225111 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
ISI Library |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
599.938 |
| Edition number |
23 |
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G559 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Glikson, Andrew Y., |
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author |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Climate, fire and human evolution : |
| Remainder of title |
the deep time dimensions of the anthropocene / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Andrew Y. Glikson and Colin Groves. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
Cham : |
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Springer, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2016. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xviii, 227 p. : |
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illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; |
| Dimensions |
24 cm. |
| 490 0# - SERIES STATEMENT |
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| Series statement |
Modern approaches in solid earth sciences ; |
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v 10. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
1. Early earth systems --<br/> 2. Phanerozoic life and mass extinctions of species --<br/> 3. Cenozoic biological evolution / by Colin Groves --<br/> 4. Fire and the biosphere --<br/> 5. The anthropocene --<br/> 6. Rare earth --<br/> 7. Prometheus : an epilogue. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
The book outlines principal milestones in the evolution of the atmosphere, oceans and biosphere during the last 4 million years in relation with the evolution from primates to the genus Homo – which uniquely mastered the ignition and transfer of fire. The advent of land plants since about 420 million years ago ensued in flammable carbon-rich biosphere interfaced with an oxygen-rich atmosphere. Born on a flammable Earth surface, under increasingly unstable climates descending from the warmer Pliocene into the deepest ice ages of the Pleistocene, human survival depended on both―biological adaptations and cultural evolution, mastering fire as a necessity. This allowed the genus to increase entropy in nature by orders of magnitude. Gathered around camp fires during long nights for hundreds of thousandth of years, captivated by the flickering life-like dance of the flames, humans developed imagination, insights, cravings, fears, premonitions of death and thereby aspiration for immortality, omniscience, omnipotence and the concept of god. Inherent in pantheism was the reverence of the Earth, its rocks and its living creatures, contrasted by the subsequent rise of monotheistic sky-god creeds which regard Earth as but a corridor to heaven. Once the climate stabilized in the early Holocene, since about ~7000 years-ago production of excess food by Neolithic civilization along the Great River Valleys has allowed human imagination and dreams to express themselves through the construction of monuments to immortality. Further to burning large part of the forests, the discovery of combustion and exhumation of carbon from the Earth’s hundreds of millions of years-old fossil biospheres set the stage for an anthropogenic oxidation event, affecting an abrupt shift in state of the atmosphere-ocean-cryosphere system. The consequent ongoing extinction equals the past five great mass extinctions of species―constituting a geological event horizon in the history of planet Earth. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Human evolution. |
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Paleoclimatology. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Fire ecology. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Groves, Colin, |
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author |
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Dewey Decimal Classification |
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Books |
