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Category : Fossils
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Fossils Quarterly
Author: The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London
Author: Geological Society of LondonPublisher:
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 936
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Vols. 1-108 include Proceedings of the society (separately paged, beginning with v. 30)
The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London
Author: Evolution
Author: Donald R. ProtheroPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231543166
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 891
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Donald R. Prothero’s Evolution is an entertaining and rigorous history of the transitional forms and series found in the fossil record. Its engaging narrative of scientific discovery and well-grounded analysis has led to the book’s widespread adoption in courses that teach the nature and value of fossil evidence for evolution. Evolution tackles systematics and cladistics, rock dating, neo-Darwinism, and macroevolution. It includes extensive coverage of the primordial soup, invertebrate transitions, the development of the backbone, the reign of the dinosaurs, and the transformation from early hominid to modern human. The book also details the many alleged “missing links” in the fossil record, including some of the most recent discoveries that flesh out the fossil timeline and the evolutionary process. In this second edition, Prothero describes new transitional fossils from various periods, vividly depicting such bizarre creatures as the Odontochelys, or the “turtle on the half shell”; fossil snakes with legs; and the “Frogamander,” a new example of amphibian transition. Prothero’s discussion of intelligent design arguments includes more historical examples and careful examination of the “experiments” and observations that are exploited by creationists seeking to undermine sound science education. With new perspectives, Prothero reframes creationism as a case study in denialism and pseudoscience rather than a field with its own intellectual dynamism. The first edition was hailed as an exemplary exploration of the fossil evidence for evolution, and this second edition will be welcome in the libraries of scholars, teachers, and general readers who stand up for sound science in this post-truth era.
Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London
Author: Florida's Fossils
Author: Robin C. BrownPublisher: Pineapple Press Inc
ISBN: 9781561644094
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
How and where to hunt fossils, and the history of these Florida treasures.
Preparing Dinosaurs
Author: Caitlin Donahue WyliePublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262365960
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
An investigation of the work and workers in fossil preparation labs reveals the often unacknowledged creativity and problem-solving on which scientists rely. Those awe-inspiring dinosaur skeletons on display in museums do not spring fully assembled from the earth. Technicians known as preparators have painstakingly removed the fossils from rock, repaired broken bones, and reconstructed missing pieces to create them. These specimens are foundational evidence for paleontologists, and yet the work and workers in fossil preparation labs go largely unacknowledged in publications and specimen records. In this book, Caitlin Wylie investigates the skilled labor of fossil preparators and argues for a new model of science that includes all research work and workers. Drawing on ethnographic observations and interviews, Wylie shows that the everyday work of fossil preparation requires creativity, problem-solving, and craft. She finds that preparators privilege their own skills over technology and that scientists prefer to rely on these trusted technicians rather than new technologies. Wylie examines how fossil preparators decide what fossils, and therefore dinosaurs, look like; how labor relations between interdependent yet hierarchically unequal collaborators influence scientific practice; how some museums display preparators at work behind glass, as if they were another exhibit; and how these workers learn their skills without formal training or scientific credentials. The work of preparing specimens is a crucial component of scientific research, although it leaves few written traces. Wylie argues that the paleontology research community's social structure demonstrates how other sciences might incorporate non-scientists into research work, empowering and educating both scientists and nonscientists.
The Quarterly Journal of Science
Author: The Quarterly Journal
Author: Geological Society of LondonPublisher:
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 1012
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