The Rise and Reign of the Mammals

This popular-science history traces mammals from early synapsid relatives in the Paleozoic through the long age when they lived in the shadow of dinosaurs, the extinction that emptied large-animal niches, and the Cenozoic radiation that produced whales, horses, elephants, primates, and humans. Brusatte uses fossils, teeth, ear bones, and recent finds to show how small nocturnal animals became the dominant land fauna. Continents, climates, and mass extinctions set the stages. The book is a narrative of mammalian evolution for general readers, not a field guide and not a survey only of living species.

Bound in cloth printed and blocked with a wrap-around colour picture. Wrap-around colour picture printed slipcase. In 2025 signed by Steve Brusatte and Davide Bonadonna.