 | Carboniferous Giants and Mass Extinction: The Late Paleozoic Ice Age World Subjects: Mass extinctions; Extinction (Biology); Climatic changes; Glacial epoch; Paleobotany -- Carboniferous; Paleontology -- Carboniferous; Paleoclimatology -- Paleozoic; 300 million years ago, dog-sized scorpions and millipedes walked the earth and tropical rainforests towered into the sky. George R. McGhee Jr. explores that ancient world, explaining its origins, its downfall in the end-Permian mass extinction, and its legacies, to offer insight into past and present extinction events and climate change. George R. McGhee Jr. is Distinguished Professor of Paleobiology at Rutgers University and a fellow of the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research in Klosterneuburg, Austria. He has held research positions at the University of Tubingen, the Field Museum of Natural History, and the American Museum of Natural History. His books include The Late Devonian Mass Extinction : The Frasnian/Famennian Crisis (1996); Theoretical Morphology: The Concept and Its Applications (1999); and When the Invasion of Land Failed : The Legacy of the Devonian Extinctions (2013), from Columbia University Press. |
