...of evolution, Alfred Russell Wallace, summarised the phenomenon splendidly as long ago as 1876: 180 We live in a zoologically impoverished world, from...and it is, no doubt, a much better world for us now that they have gone. Yet it is surely a marvellous fact, and one that has hardly been sufficiently...

...Russel Wallace, added to the insight by recognising that the phenomenon was a near-global one, stating, 'we live in a zoologically impoverished world, from...hugest, and fiercest, and strangest forms have recently disappeared'.1 Wallace called the extinction of the giants a 'marvellous fact', and over the century...

...University Press, 1986), 222. 17 Genesis 1. FOUR The Upper Paleolithic: "Humans and Other Catastrophes"1 We live in a zoologically impoverished world, from which all the hugest, and fiercest, and strongest forms have recently disappeared; and it is, no doubt, a much better world for us now they...

...with varying degrees of intensity in much of the world, from the Pacific to Eurasia to the Americas: "We live in a zoologically impoverished world, from...and it is, no doubt, a much better world for us now that they have gone. Yet it is surely a marvelous fact, and one that has hardly been sufficiently dwelt...

...world record this disaster. The nineteenth-century English naturalist Alfred Wallace once commented: We live in a zoologically impoverished world from...fiercest, and strangest forms have recently disappeared ... yet 5 ISI i II « 1.5 _ rr 0 ^ CO ir CO O 1 . 0 0 Q. ° Q. w S 8QI 0.5 <O — ' Pleistocene .2...

...extinctions. Darwin's co-discoverer of natural selection, Alfred Russel Wallace (1876), wrote that "we live in a zoologically impoverished world, from...fiercest, and strangest forms have recently disappeared." Almost as soon as Cuvier demonstrated that the mammoths and other large Pleistocene mammals were extinct,...

...becoming extinct and others rapidly emerging. Alfred Wallace (1823-1913) expressed this with the worlds "We live in a zoologically impoverished world, from...fiercest, and strangest forms have recently disappeared". In short, the discussion was about the main driving agent in the biological evolution: chance (contingency)...

...America alike since Post-Pliocene times, " it is clear," our author tells ' Continued from p. 1 68. us, "that we are now in an altogether exceptional period of the earth's history," some idea of which it is very necessary to realise. " We live in an impoverished world, from which...