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The Dragon Seekers (Paperback)
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The Dragon Seekers (Paperback)
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Loot Price R464
Discovery Miles 4 640
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Set in nineteenth-century England, The Dragon Seekers chronicles
the amazing discoveries of the first fossilists, whose findings in
geology and paleontology led to the discovery of the age of
dinosaurs. The intriguing cast of characters includes Mary Anning,
a working-class woman who became one of the most successful fossil
collectors of all time; Thomas Hawkins, another amateur collector
who improved upon fossils in order to increase their market value;
the eccentric William Buckland, discoverer of the world's first
dinosaur (Megalosaurus), and Richard Owen, an expert anatomist, who
synthesized the discoveries of the age and ultimately coined the
word dinosaur in 1842. Christopher McGowan takes us back to a time
when the new sciences of geology and paleontology were as young and
vibrant as genetic engineering is today. Through heated public
debates on everything from the age of the earth to the notion of
extinction, the Dragon Seekers initiated the shift from a biblical
to a scientific interpretation of the remote past. In this way,
they laid the intellectual groundwork for Darwin's revolutionary
ideas, and launched a global obsession with the Age of Reptiles
that continues even today.
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