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The Fate of the Mammoth - Fossils, Myth, and History (Hardcover, 2nd Ed.)
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The Fate of the Mammoth - Fossils, Myth, and History (Hardcover, 2nd Ed.)
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From cave paintings to the latest Siberian finds, woolly mammoths
have fascinated people across Europe, Asia, and North America for
centuries. Remains of these enormous prehistoric animals were among
the first fossils to be recognized as such, and they have played a
crucial role in the birth and development of paleontology. In this
lively, wide-ranging look at the fate of the mammoth, Claudine
Cohen reanimates this large mammal with heavy curved tusks and
shaggy brown hair through its history in science, myth, and popular
culture.
Cohen uses the mammoth and the theories that naturalists
constructed around it to illuminate wider issues in the history of
science, showing how changing views about a single object reveal
the development of scientific methods, practices, and ideas. How
are fossils discovered, reconstructed, displayed, and interpreted?
What stories are told about them, by whom, and how do these stories
reflect the cultures and societies in which they are told?
To find out, Cohen takes us on a grand tour of the study of mammoth
remains, from England, Germany, and France to Russia and America,
and from the depths of Africa to the frozen frontiers of Alaska and
Siberia, where intact mammoth corpses have been discovered in the
permafrost. Along the way, she shows how paleontologists draw on
myth and history, as well as on scientific evidence, to explore the
deep history of the earth and of life. Cohen takes her history from
the sixteenth century right up to the present, when researchers are
using molecular biology to retrieve mammoth DNA, calling up dreams
of cloning the mammoth and one day seeing herds of woolly mammoths
roaming the frozen steppes.
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