Chris Johnson was born in Texas and moved to Colorado after college in 2004. As an engineer, he designs roads and infrastructure. As an artist, he paints whimsical landscapes and illustrates books. "Remember to Water the Trees" (2022) was inspired by road trips with his dad. "Happy Birthday Penguin" (2024) is based on bedtime rhymes he sang to his son. Visit www.PaintingsByChrisJohnson.com for more.
Preface and Acknowledgments
Glossary
1. Introduction - a brief history of Australian mammals
Part I. Mammals and People in Ice-Age Australia - 2.6 Million to 10,000 Years Ago: 2. The Pleistocene Megafauna
3. What caused the Megafauna extinctions? 150 years of debate
4. Two dating problems - human arrival and Megafauna extinction
5. The changing environment of Late Pleistocene Australia
6. Testing hypotheses on Megafauna extinction
7. The aftermath: ecology consequences of Megafauna extinction
Part II. The Late Pre-Historic Period - 10,000 to 200 Years Ago
8. Environmental change and human history in aboriginal Australia
9. Dingoes, people, and other mammals in Holocene Australia
Part III. Europeans and Their New Mammals - The Last 200 Years
10. Mammal extinction in European Australia
11. What caused the recent extinctions?
12 Interaction: rabbits, sheep and dingoes
13. Conclusions - the history in review.
