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Show me the bone : reconstructing prehistoric monsters in nineteenth-century Britain and America /

Nineteenth-century 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 rel...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Dawson, Gowan (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2016.
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