Paleontology : : An Illustrated History /

Paleontology : : An Illustrated History / / David Bainbridge.

An illustrated look at the art and science of paleontology from its origins to todayHumans have been stumbling upon the petrified remains of ancient animals since prehistoric times, leading to tales of giant dogs, deadly dragons, tree gods, sea serpents, and all manner of strange and marvelous creat...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
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Bainbridge, David,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 100+ color illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • FOREWORD: THE PLEASURE OF RUINS
  • INTRODUCTION: WHEN FOSSILS BECAME LIFE
  • Chapter One ORGANIC REMAINS OF A FORMER WORLD 1800 –1860
  • ORGANIC REMAINS OF A FORMER WORLD
  • WILLIAM SMITH (1769–1839) A Layered Chronology of Fossils
  • MARY ANNING (1799–1847) “The Greatest Fossilist the World Ever Knew”
  • CHARLES DARWIN (1809–1882) Fossil Hunting in South America
  • Chapter Two A PRETERNATURAL SELECTION 1860–1920
  • A PRETERNATURAL SELECTION
  • CHARLES MARSH (1831–1899) AND EDWARD DRINKER COPE (1840–1897) The Bone Wars
  • CHARLES KNIGHT (1874–1953) Leaping Laelaps and its Co-stars
  • CHARLES WALCOTT (1850–1927) The Burgess Shale and the Cambrian Explosion
  • Chapter Three FROM INDIANA JONES TO IRIDIUM ANOMALY 1920–1980
  • FROM INDIANA JONES TO IRIDIUM ANOMALY
  • ROY CHAPMAN ANDREWS (1884–1960) The Ends of the Earth
  • REG SPRIGG (1919–1994) AND TREVOR FORD (1925–2017) Life Before Ancient Life
  • MARY LEAKEY (1913–1996) Consuls, Nutcrackers, and Footprints in the Ash
  • LUIS AND WALTER ALVAREZ (1911–1988 AND 1940–) Did an Extraterrestrial Impact Kill the Dinosaurs?
  • Chapter Four THE MODERN ANCIENT 1980–PRESENT
  • THE MODERN ANCIENT
  • JENNY CLACK (1947–2020) Gaining Ground
  • KING KONG (1933) AND JURASSIC PARK (1993) Paleontology and Popcorn
  • YURI KHUDI (BIRTH DATE UNKNOWN, DISCOVERY IN 2007) Reawakening Mammuthus primigenius
  • LIFE ON EARTH (4,500,000,000 YEARS AGO TO THE PRESENT) Fossils From When the World Was Young
  • CREDITS
  • INDEX

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