Libros
Christopher McGowan · Basic Books, 2002
Set in nineteenth-century England, The Dragon Seekers chronicles the amazing discoveries of the first fossilists, whose findings in geology and paleontology led to the discovery of the age of dinosaurs. The intriguing cast of characters includes Mary Anning, a working-class woman who became one of the most successful fossil collectors of all time; Thomas Hawkins, another amateur collector who "improved upon" fossils in order to increase their market value; the eccentric William Buckland, discoverer of the world's first dinosaur (Megalosaurus), and Richard Owen, an expert anatomist, who synthesized the discoveries of the age and ultimately coined the word "dinosaur" in 1842. Christopher McGowan takes us back to a time when the new sciences of geology and paleontology were as young and vibrant as genetic engineering is today.
Through heated public debates on everything from the age of the earth to the notion of extinction, the Dragon Seekers initiated the shift from a biblical to a scientific interpretation of the remote past. In this way, they laid the intellectual groundwork for Darwin's revolutionary ideas, and launched a global obsession with the Age of Reptiles that continues even today.
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Introducción · En inglés
David E. Fastovsky, David B. Weishampel
Cambridge University Press, 2012
"Updated with the material that instructors want, Dinosaurs continues to make science exciting and understandable to non-science majors through its narrative of scientific concepts rather than endless facts. Now with new material on pterosaurs, an expanded section of the evolution of the dinosaurs, and new photographs…
Universitario · En inglés
John H. Ostrom, John S. McIntosh
Yale University Press, 2000
In the 1870s a wealth of fossil dinosaur and Jurassic mammal bones were uncovered at Como Bluff, Wyoming, the first major discovery of such remains in the world. O. C. Marsh, then palaeontologist for Yale University's Peabody Museum, managed to finance and claim the greater portion of the excavations. He reunited the…
Universitario · En inglés
Donald F. Glut
McFarland & Company, 2007
A fifth supplement to ""Dinosaurs: The Encyclopedia"", this volume includes a discussion of the Mesozoic Era, covers discoveries in paleontology, and furthers the ectothermy/ endothermy debate from previous installments.
Divulgación · En inglés
Kirk R. Johnson, Richard Stucky
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Incorporated, 2002
Divulgación · En inglés
Charles Darwin
Tantor Media, 2006
On December 27, 1831, the young naturalist Charles Darwin left Plymouth Harbor aboard the HMS Beagle. For the next five years, he conducted research on plants and animals from around the globe, amassing a body of evidence that would culminate in one of the greatest discoveries in the history of mankind-the theory of…
