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PROTHERO, D. R. 2006. After the Dinosaurs. The Age of Mammals. xvi + 362 pp.

Bloomington, Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. Price US $39.95 (hard covers). ISBN 0 253 34733 5.

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Good books reviewing the Cenozoic are few and far between, and in After the Dinosaurs, Donald R. Prothero has succeeded in producing what might be the first well-rounded, modern review of the biological, geological and climatological history of the last 65 million years. The volume is very well illustrated and written for the non-specialist, though even seasoned veterans should find it a useful compilation.

Special attention is given to areas where interpretations and ideas have recently been revised or augmented: Prothero provides extensive coverage of the remarkable greenhouse conditions of the early Eocene, the middle–late Eocene extinction event, and the Oligocene transition to ‘icehouse’ conditions. Much of the coverage here of the tempo and possible causes of these events will be new to people who don’t specialize on the Palaeogene. His sceptical coverage of the catastrophic mass extinction scenarios sought . . . [Full Text of this Article]