The Princeton Field Guide to Prehistoric Mammals, Prothero Donald R.

Автор: Cunliffe
Название: Prehistoric Europe
ISBN: 0192854410 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780192854414
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: This is a comprehensive study of the early history, art and archaeology of Europe, ranging from the coming of Stone Age Man to the fall of the Roman Empire. Containing over 300 plates, maps and drawings, this book is unique in its approach to the history of civilization as a response to the changing European landscape and environment.

Автор: Owen
Название: A History of British Fossil Mammals, and Birds
ISBN: 1108038166 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108038164
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Richard Owen (1804-92), the palaeontologist and anatomist, published this analysis of the comparative anatomy of the fossils of British birds and mammals in 1846. It compares living species with extinct ones, and explains the characteristics that help identification, using 237 illustrations to show the traits of different species.

Автор: Prothero
Название: The Design of Mammals
ISBN: 1107110475 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107110472
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: A scaling approach investigates the principles of mammal design by examining the ways in which mammals of diverse size and taxonomy are quantitatively comparable. Using substantially larger and more rigorously screened samples than in any existing text, this book analyses a uniquely extensive set of mammal attributes.

Автор: Lieberman
Название: Prehistoric Life - Evolution and the Fossil Record
ISBN: 1444334085 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781444334081
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Prehistoric life is the archive of evolution preserved in the fossil record. This book focuses on the meaning and significance of that archive and is designed for introductory college science students, including non-science majors, enrolled in survey courses emphasizing paleontology, geology and biology.

Автор: Dawson Gowan
Название: Show Me the Bone: Reconstructing Prehistoric Monsters in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America
ISBN: 022633273X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226332734
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Nineteenth-century paleontologists boasted that, shown a single bone, they could identify or even reconstruct the extinct creature it came from with infallible certainty--"Show me the bone, and I will describe the animal " Paleontologists such as Georges Cuvier and Richard Owen were heralded as scientific virtuosos, sometimes even veritable wizards, capable of resurrecting the denizens of an ancient past from a mere glance at a fragmentary bone. Such extraordinary feats of predictive reasoning relied on the law of correlation, which proposed that each element of an animal corresponds mutually with each of the others, so that a carnivorous tooth must be accompanied by a certain kind of jawbone, neck, stomach, limbs, and feet.
Show Me the Bone tells the story of the rise and fall of this famous claim, tracing its fortunes from Europe to America and showing how it persisted in popular science and literature and shaped the practices of paleontologists long after the method on which it was based had been refuted. In so doing, Gowan Dawson reveals how decisively the practices of the scientific elite were--and still are--shaped by their interactions with the general public.