Climate, Fire and Human Evolution: The Deep Time Dimensions of the Anthropocene

by Colin Groves and Andrew Y. Glikson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319363980
• ISBN13: 9783319363981
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 227 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"