{"id":349,"date":"2008-03-23T09:24:27","date_gmt":"2008-03-23T13:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/books\/?p=349"},"modified":"2009-02-15T09:30:13","modified_gmt":"2009-02-15T13:30:13","slug":"rivers-in-time-peter-d-ward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/2008\/03\/rivers-in-time-peter-d-ward\/","title":{"rendered":"Rivers in Time &#8211; Peter D. Ward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pictures\/books\/rivers-in-time.jpg\" width=\"155\" height=\"238\" alt=\"Cover of Rivers in Time\" class=\"alignleft\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"small\"><strong><br \/>\nRivers in Time<br \/>\nPeter D. Ward<br \/>\n315 pages including index<br \/>\npublished in 2000<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n<cite>Rivers of Time<\/cite> is a new edition of <cite>The End of Evolution<\/cite>, a book originally published in 1994, roughly around the same time as E. O. Wilson&#8217;s <cite><a href=\"\/books\/diversity-of-life.html\">Diversity of Life<\/a><\/cite>, with which it overlaps to some point. Like that book, <cite>Rivers of Time<\/cite> mixes exploration of the Earth&#8217;s evolutionary past with concern for the<br \/>\npresent, focussing on the historical three mega extinctions as well as the one currently under way. Unlike E. O. Wilson&#8217;s book however, this is not a call to arms. Ward is much more resigned to the great extinction than Wilson is.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nPartially this may be because in Ward&#8217;s view, this great extinction has already happened, with the disappearance of the megafauna of Europe, North America, Australia and many parts of Asia and Africa during the last 15,000-20,000 years, coinciding with the rise of modern humanity. The extinctions still taking place now are just the aftermath of this. I&#8217;m not sure how much I agree with this, but at the very least it puts the current destruction of ecosystems in place like Brazil or Borneo into a new perspective, when you realise the same thing had already happened in Europe thousands of years ago.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"\/books\/rivers-in-time.html\">Read more<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rivers in Time Peter D. Ward 315 pages including index published in 2000 Rivers of Time is a new edition of The End of Evolution, a book originally published in 1994, roughly around the same time as E. O. Wilson&#8217;s Diversity of Life, with which it overlaps to some point. Like that book, Rivers of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[116,117,115,114,855],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","tag-ecology","tag-extinction","tag-peter-d-ward","tag-rivers-in-time","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":350,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions\/350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}