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Ice Ages and Overkill

Quaternary Paleoecology

Edited by E. J. Cushing and H. E. Wright jun. (Vol. 7 of the Proceedings of the VII Congress of the International Association for Quaternary Research, sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council.) Pp. vii + 433. (Yale University Press: New Haven and London, 1967.) 135s.

Pleistocene Extinctions

The Search for a Cause. Edited by P. S. Martin and H. E. Wright jun. (Vol. 6 of the Proceedings of the VII Congress of the International Association for Quaternary Research, sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council.) Pp. x + 453. (Yale University Press: New Haven and London, 1967.) 112s. 6d.

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GODWIN, H. Ice Ages and Overkill. Nature 219, 1285–1287 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/2191285b0

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