Our Ancient Lakes
A Natural History
$49.82
- Hardcover
336 pages
- Release Date
14 November 2023
Summary
The unexpected diversity, beauty, and strangeness of life in ancient lakes—some millions of years old—and the remarkable insights the lakes are yielding about the causes of biodiversity.
Most lakes are less than 10,000 years old and short-lived, but there is a much smaller number of ancient lakes, tectonic in origin and often millions of years old, that are scattered across every continent but Antarctica—Baikal, Tanganyika, Victoria, Titicaca, and Biwa, to name a few. Often these lake…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262047852 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262047853 |
| Author: | Jeffrey McKinnon |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 14 November 2023 |
| Weight: | 425g |
| Dimensions: | 211mm x 141mm x 28mm |
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About The Author
Jeffrey McKinnon
Jeffrey McKinnon received his BSc from the University of British Columbia and his PhD from Harvard University. A Professor of Biology at East Carolina University, his research has taken him to every continent but Antarctica and has appeared in journals including Nature and the American Naturalist.
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