The Great Fossil Enigma : The Search for the Conodont Animal /

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Stephen Jay Gould borrowed from Winston Churchill when he described the conodont animal as a ""riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma."" This animal confounded science for more than a century. Some thought it a slug, others a fish, a worm, a plant, even a primitive ancestor...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Knell, Simon J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington and Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Sciences > Aspect social.
Conodontes.
Conodonten
Science > Social aspects.
Conodonts.
SCIENCE > History.
NATURE > Fossils.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prelude : the impossible animal
  • The road to El Dorado
  • A beacon in the blackness
  • The animal with three heads
  • Another fine mess
  • Outlaws
  • Spring
  • Diary of a fossil fruit fly
  • Fears of civil war
  • The promised land
  • The witness
  • The beast of Bear Gulch
  • The invention of life
  • El Dorado
  • Over the mountains of the moon
  • Afterword : The progress of tiny things.

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