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The Extinction of Late Pleistocene Large Mammals from North Eurasian Perspective – Review of Ross D.E. MacPhee (with illustrations by Peter Schouten). End of the Megafauna: The Fate of the World’s Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals. 2019. W. W. Norton & Co. ISBN: 978-0-39324-929-3; xii + 236 pages, with 83 illustrations and 1 table. List price $35 US (hardback). Photo courtesy of W. W. Norton & Co.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2020

Yaroslav V Kuzmin Open the ORCID record for Yaroslav V Kuzmin [Opens in a new window]
Yaroslav V Kuzmin*
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Leading Research Scientist, Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk630090, Russia; and Laboratory of Mesozoic and Cenozoic Continental Ecosystems, Tomsk State University, Tomsk634050, Russia. Emails: kuzmin_yv@igm.nsc.ru; kuzmin@fulbrightmail.org.
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Radiocarbon , Volume 62 , Issue 2 , April 2020 , pp. 265 - 268
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