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020			_a9781529034233
028			_a: Technical Bureau India Pvt. Ltd. _b: 4794/23, 1st Floor, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi _c: TB2194 _d: 30/09/2026
082			_a569 BRU
100			_aBrusatte, Steve.
245			_aThe Rise and Reign of the Mammals _b: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us. _c/ Steve Brusatte.
260			_a, New York _b: Picadore _c, 2022.
300			_axxvi, 500p. _c: 18cm.
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520			_aOver these immense stretches of geological time, mammals developed their trademark features: hair, keen senses of smell and hearing, big brains and sharp intelligence, fast growth and warm-blooded metabolism, a distinctive line-up of teeth (canines, incisors, premolars, molars), mammary glands that mothers use to nourish their babies with milk, qualities that have underlain their success story. Out of this long and rich evolutionary history came the mammals of today, including our own species and our closest cousins. But today’s 6,000 mammal species - the egg-laying monotremes including the platypus, marsupials such as kangaroos and koalas that raise their tiny babies in pouches, and placentals like us, who give birth to well-developed young – are simply the few survivors of a once verdant family tree, which has been pruned both by time and mass extinctions. In The Rise and Reign of the Mammals, palaeontologist Steve Brusatte weaves together the history and evolution of our mammal forebears with stories of the scientists whose fieldwork and discoveries underlie our knowledge, both of iconic mammals like the mammoths and sabre-toothed tigers of which we have all heard, and of fascinating species that few of us are aware of.
650			_aMammals
650			_aHistory of Mammals
650			_aRise of Mammals
700			_aSteve Brusatte.
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