A short history of nearly everything - Bill Bryson [261]
13 “Less than a decade after his death . . .” McPhee, In Suspect Terrain, p. 197.
14 “For the next twenty years . . .” Gribbin and Gribbin, Ice Age, p. 51.
15 “The cause of ice ages . . .” Chorlton, Ice Ages, p. 101.
16 “It is not necessarily the amount of snow . . .” Schultz, p. 72.
17 “The process is self-enlarging . . .” McPhee, In Suspect Terrain, p. 205.
18 “you would have been hard pressed to find a geologist . . .” Gribbin and Gribbin, Ice Age, p. 60.
19 “we are still very much in an ice age . . .” Schultz, Ice Age Lost, p. 5.
20 “a situation that may be unique in Earth's history.” Gribbin and Gribbin, Fire on Earth, p. 147.
21 “at least seventeen severe glacial episodes . . .” Flannery, The Eternal Frontier, p. 148.
22 “about fifty more glacial episodes . . .” McPhee, In Suspect Terrain, p. 4.
23 “Earth had no regular ice ages . . .” Stevens, p. 10.
24 “the Cryogenian, or super ice age.” McGuire, p. 69.
25 “The entire surface of the planet . . .” Valley News (from Washington Post), “The Snowball Theory,” June 19, 2000, p. C1.
26 “the wildest weather it has ever experienced . . .” BBC Horizon transcript, “Snowball Earth,” February 22, 2001, p. 7.
27 “known to science as the Younger Dryas,” Stevens, p. 34.
28 “a vast unsupervised experiment . . .” New Yorker, “Ice Memory,” January 7, 2002, p. 36.
29 “a slight warming would enhance evaporation rates . . .” Schultz, p. 72.
30 “No less intriguing are the known ranges . . .” Drury, p. 268.
31 “a retreat to warmer climes wasn't possible.” Thomas H. Rich, Patricia Vickers-Rich, and Roland Gangloff, “Polar Dinosaurs,” unpublished manuscript.
32 “there is a lot more water for them to draw on . . .” Schultz, p. 159.
33 “If so, sea levels globally would rise . . .” Ball, p. 75.
34 “‘Did you have a good ice age?' ” Flannery, The Eternal Frontier, p. 267.
CHAPTER 28 THE MYSTERIOUS BIPED
1 “Just before Christmas 1887 . . .” National Geographic, May 1997, p. 87.
2 “found by railway workers in a cave . . .” Tattersall and Schwartz, p. 149.
3 “The first formal description . . .” Trinkaus and Shipman, p. 173.
4 “the name and credit for the discovery . . .” Trinkaus and Shipman, pp. 3–6.
5 “T. H. Huxley in England drily observed . . .” Trinkaus and Shipman, p. 59.
6 “He did no digging himself . . .” Gould, Eight Little Piggies, pp. 126–27.
7 “In fact, many anthropologists think it is modern . . .” Walker and Shipman, The Wisdom of the Bones, p. 47.
8 “If it is an erectus bone . . .” Trinkaus and Shipman, p. 144.
9 “with nothing but a scrap of cranium and one tooth . . .” Trinkaus and Shipman, p. 154.
10 “Schwalbe thereupon produced a monograph . . .” Walker and Shipman, p. 50.
11 “Dart could see at once . . .” Walker and Shipman, p. 90.
12 “he would sometimes bury their bodies . . .” Trinkaus and Shipman, p. 233.
13 “Dart spent five years working up a monograph . . .” Lewin, Bones of Contention, p. 82.
14 “sat as a paperweight on a colleague's desk.” Walker and Shipman, p. 93.
15 “announced the discovery of Sinanthropus pekinensis . . .” Swisher, et al., Java Man, p. 75.
16 “enthusiastically smashing large pieces into small ones . . .” Swisher et al., p. 77.
17 “Solo People were known . . .” Swisher, et al., p. 211.
18 “in 1960 F. Clark Howell of the University of Chicago . . .” Trinkaus and Shipman, pp. 267–68.
19 “our understanding of human prehistory . . .” Washington Post, “Skull Raises Doubts About Our Ancestry.” March 22, 2001.
20 “You could fit it all into the back of a pickup truck . . .” Ian Tattersall interview, American Museum of Natural History, New York, May 6, 2002.
21 “early hand tools were mostly made by antelopes.” Walker and Shipman, p. 82.
22 “males and females evolving at different rates . . .” Walker and Shipman, p. 133.
23 “dismiss it as a mere ‘wastebasket species' . . .” Tattersall and Schwartz, p. 111.
24 “have confirmed the preconceptions of its discoverer.” Quoted by Gribbin and Cherfas, The First Chimpanzee, p. 60.
25 “perhaps the largest share of egos . . .” Swisher et al., p. 17.
26 “unpredictable and