Great Fossil Enigma - The Search for the Conodont Animal

Informationen zum Autor Simon J. Knell, Professor of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester, is renowned for his innovative studies of fossils as scientific and cultural objects. Previously a popular geology columnist for Geology Today, Knell has published The Making of the Geological Society of London; The Culture of English Geology, 1815-1851; and The Age of the Earth: From 4004 BC to 2002 AD. Klappentext Today the conodont animal remains perhaps the most disputed creature in the zoological world. Zusammenfassung Takes the reader on a journey through 150 years of scientific thinking, imagining, and arguing Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface List of Illustrations Prelude: The Impossible Animal 1. The Road to El Dorado 2. A Beacon in the Blackness 3. The Animal with Three Heads 4. Another Fine Mess 5. Outlaws 6. Spring 7. Diary of a Fossil Fruit-Fly 8. Fears of Civil War 9. The Promised Land 10. The Witness 11. The Beast of Bear Gulch 12. The Invention of Life 13. El Dorado 14. Over the Mountains of the Moon Notes Index

Product details

• Authors: Simon J Knell, Simon J. Knell, Knell Simon J
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.11.2012
• EAN: 9780253006042
• ISBN: 978-0-253-00604-2
• No. of pages: 440
• Series: Life of the Past; Life of the Past
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general)