{"product_id":"9781101583685","title":"The Last Lost World: Ice Ages, Human Origins, and the Invention of the Pleistocene","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn enlightening investigation of the Pleistocene’s dual character as a geologic time—and as a cultural idea\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Pleistocene is the epoch of geologic time closest to our own. It’s a time of ice ages, global migrations, and mass extinctions—of woolly rhinos, mammoths, giant ground sloths, and not least early species of \u003ci\u003eHomo\u003c\/i\u003e. It’s the world that created ours.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut outside that environmental story there exists a parallel narrative that describes how our ideas about the Pleistocene have emerged. This story explains the place of the Pleistocene in shaping intellectual culture, and the role of a rapidly evolving culture in creating the idea of the Pleistocene and in establishing its dimensions. This second story addresses how the epoch, its Earth-shaping events, and its creatures, both those that survived and those that disappeared, helped kindle new sciences and a new origins story as the sciences split from the humanities as a way of looking at the past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUltimately, it is the story of how the dominant creature to emerge from the frost-and-fire world of the Pleistocene came to understand its place in the scheme of things. A remarkable synthesis of science and history, \u003ci\u003eThe Last Lost World\u003c\/i\u003e describes the world that made our modern one.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47111989788912,"sku":"9781101583685","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781101583685_p0.jpg?v=1763688413","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781101583685","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}