HISTORY OF LIFE

1. The Origin of Life
   
2. Earth's Earliest Life
   
3. Sex and Nuclei: Eukaryotes
   
4. The Evolution of Animals
   
5. Life in a Changing World
   
6. Extinction
   
7. The Early Vertebrates
   
8. Leaving the Water
   
9. Amphibians and Reptiles
   
10. Reptiles and Thermoregulation
    
11. Triassic Takeover
    
12. Dinosaurs
    
13. Warm-Blooded Dinosaurs?
    
14. The Evolution of Flight
    
15. The Origin of Mammals
    
16. Marine Reptiles
    
17. Why Flowers are Beautiful
    
18. The End of the Dinosaurs
    
19. Cenozoic Mammals
    
20. Geography and Evolution
    
21. Primates
    
22. Evolving Toward Humans
    
23. The Ice Age
    
24. Humans and the Ice Age
    

Humans and the Ice Age

Life and Climate in the Ice Ages

• For Extensive Web Links See Dr. Cowen's Web Links for Chapter 24
• Introduction to the Ice Ages
• Did We Eat the Mammoths?
• Animated Image of the Spread of Clovis Hunters After the Last Ice Age
• The Mammoth Family Tree and their Extinction
• More Little-Known Facts about the Beresovka ("Woody") Mammoth
• Coincidence?: Giant Ground Sloths Survived for 35 Million Years until About 10,000 Years Ago
  (Some More Sloth Links: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
• More Extinctions Last Millennium:Tigers and Saber-toothed Cat
• Stellar's Sea Cow and Spectacled Cormorant and Eskimo Curlew from Endangered Species of Alaska
• The Tragedy of the Dodo
• Pleistocence and Contemporary Artists Depict Extinct Mammals
• AMNH Library Exhibit on Extinct and Endangered Species

The World Today

• Overview of the Holocene (Last 11,000 Years)
• Climate Change During the Last 3,000 Years Modern World
• Outstanding New Book: The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature by David Suzuki, et al.