Bibliograph

The great dinosaur controversy, a guide to the debates, Keith M. Parsons

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Label

The great dinosaur controversy, a guide to the debates, Keith M. Parsons

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The great dinosaur controversy

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Oclc number

276800071

Responsibility statement

Keith M. Parsons

Series statement

Controversies in science

Sub title

a guide to the debates

Summary

A historical review of the most important scientific controversies that have shaped our knowledge of dinosaurs since the discovery of important fossils in the 1820s

Table Of Contents

Why all the fuss? -- "Fearfully great lizards" -- Huxley agonistes -- Range war -- Whose dinosaur? Kaiser Bill's or Uncle Sam's? -- Cold-blooded, warm-blooded, or neither? -- The raptor and the hummingbird -- "Sometimes you have a really bad day, and something falls out of the sky."

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