Architects of Eternity: The New Science of Fossils - Hardcover

Corfield, Richard

 
9780747271796: Architects of Eternity: The New Science of Fossils
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0747271798 ISBN 13: 9780747271796
Verlag: Headline Book Publishing, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

Man has always been fascinated by fossils, but it is only relatively recently that we have begun to appreciate fully what they actually tell us about the world. Scattered across eternity, the fossil record is our only clue to the vast tracts of "deep time" which precede the advent of humankind. Predictably, the way fossils have been interpreted in the past often tell us more about the personalities involved than it does about prehistory. But is through these personalities, from Othniel Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope battling it out in the wilderness of 19th-century Wyoming right up to the bitter feuds of scientists of the 21st-century, that in the end we have come to learn extraordinary things about the real origins of life on earth.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Richard Corfield is a Research Associate in the Department of Earth Sciences at Oxford University. He has been at the forefront of palaeontological innovation for the past decade. This is his first book.

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Verlag
Headline Book Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0747271798
ISBN 13 
9780747271796
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Anzahl der Seiten
352
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