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The Last Lost World: Ice Ages, Human Origins, and the Invention of the Pleistocene

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An enthralling scientific and cultural exploration of the Ice Age—from the author of How the Canyon Became Grand

From a remarkable father-daughter team comes a dramatic synthesis of science and environmental history—an exploration of the geologic time scale and evolution twinned with the story of how, eventually, we have come to understand our own past.

The Pleistocene is the epoch of geologic time closest to our own. The Last Lost World is an inquiry into the conditions that made it, the th...