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Return to the Sea

The Life and Evolutionary Times of Marine Mammals

Annalisa Berta

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Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik / Naturwissenschaften allgemein

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Return to the Sea portrays the life and evolutionary times of marine mammals—from giant whales and sea cows that originated 55 million years ago to the deep-diving elephant seals and clam-eating walruses of modern times. This fascinating account of the origin of various marine-mammal lineages—some extinct, others extant but threatened—is for the nonspecialist. Against a backdrop of geologic time and changing climates and geography, this volume takes evolution as its unifying principle to help us to understand today’s diversity of marine mammals and their responses to environmental challenges. Annalisa Berta explains current controversies and explores patterns of change now taking place, such as shifting food webs and predator-prey relationships, habitat degradation, global warming, and the effects of humans on marine-mammal communities.

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marine evolution, elephant seals, predator and prey, extinct marine life, history of the sea, mammal zoology, natural history, extinct mammals, marine biology students, marine food webs, mammal evolution, history of mammals, marine history, walruses, polar bears, evolutionary biologist, marine life history, evolution, oceanography books, climate change and animals, climate change and the ocean, whales and dolphins, global warming, zoology, marine species, humans and marine life, bioscience books, marine mammal science