1493

1493

by Charles C. Mann
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 01/09/2011

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Two hundred million years ago the earth consisted of a single vast continent, Pangea, surrounded by a great planetary sea. Continental drift tore apart Pangaea, and for millennia the hemispheres were separate, evolving almost entirely different suites of plants and animals. Columbus's arrival in the Americas brought together these long-separate worlds. Many historians believe that this collision of ecosystems and cultures - the Columbian Exchange - was the most consequential event in human history since the Neolithic Revolution. And it was the most consequential event in biological history since the extinction of the dinosaurs.


Beginning with the world of microbes and moving up the species ladder to mankind, Mann rivetingly describes the profound effect this exchanging of species had on the culture of both continents.

ISBN:
9781847084408
9781847084408
Category:
Biology
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
01-09-2011
Language:
English
Publisher:
Granta Publications
Charles C. Mann

Charles C. Mann is a correspondent for The Atlantic Science, and Wired, and has written for Fortune, The New York Times, Smithsonian, Vanity Fair, and The Washington Post, and for HBO and Law & Order.

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