Born in the city of Rockhampton, Central Queensland, Chris Johnson grew up on a diet of Atari computers, comics, and nineteen-eighties television. Today he lives in Brisbane with his own family. When not writing, Chris performs as a mentalist and psychic entertainer at corporate and private functions. He also enjoys watching movies, reading, running, and kung fu.
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.
