Author: Henry Fairfield OsbornPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Elephants, Fossil
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Hunting the Ancestral Elephant in the Fayûm Desert
Author: Henry Fairfield OsbornPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Elephants, Fossil
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Notes From Diary-Fayum Trip, 1907
Author: Vincent L. MorganPublisher: New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
ISBN:
Category : Fayyūm (Egypt)
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Synopsis of Lectures in Paleontology I
Author: John Campbell MerriamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Paleontology
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
The Zoological Record
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classification
Languages : en
Pages : 1518
Book Description
Indexes the world's zoological and animal science literature, covering all research from biochemistry to veterinary medicine. The database provides a collection of references from over 4,500 international serial publications, plus books, meetings, reviews and other no- serial literature from over 100 countries. It is the oldest continuing database of animal biology, indexing literature published from 1864 to the present. Zoological Record has long been recognized as the "unofficial register" for taxonomy and systematics, but other topics in animal biology are also covered.
Elwyn Simons: A Search for Origins
Author: John G FleaglePublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387738967
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
For nearly a half century, Dr. Simons has dominated the study of primate evolution. This volume summarizes the current state of knowledge in many aspects of primate and human evolution that have been studied by Simons and his colleagues and place it in a broader paleontological and historical perspective. The book contains the results of new research as well as reviews of many of the critical issues in primate and human evolution during the last half of the twentieth century.
Hunting Extinct Animals in the Patagonian Pampas
Author: Frederic Brewster LoomisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Paleontology
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Written in Stone (Icon Science)
Author: Brian SwitekPublisher: Icon Books Ltd
ISBN: 184831311X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Darwin's theory of evolution was for more than a century dogged by a major problem: the evidence proving the connections between the main groups of organisms was nowhere to be found. By the 1970s this absence of 'transitional fossils' was hotly debated; some palaeontologists wondered if these 'missing links' had been so quick that no trace of them was left. However, during the past three decades fossils of walking whales from Pakistan, feathered dinosaurs from China, fish with feet from the Arctic Circle, ape-like humans from Africa, and many more bizarre creatures that fill in crucial gaps in our understanding of evolution have all been unearthed. The first account of the hunt for evolution's 'missing links', Written in Stone shows how these discoveries have revolutionised palaeontology, and explores what its findings might mean for our place on earth.
The Record of Zoological Literature
Author: The Southern Planter
Author: Henry Fairfield Osborn
Author: Brian RegalPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351930958
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
The discovery in the 1920s of a huge cache of fossils in the Gobi Desert fuelled a mania for dinosaurs that continues to the present. But the original goal of the expedition was to search for the origins of man. Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857-1935), director of the American Museum of Natural History, stood at the forefront of the debate over human evolution and the expedition aimed to prove his theory of human origins. Osborn rejected the idea of primate ancestry and constructed a non-Darwinian theory that the evolution of man was the long adventurous story of individuals and groups exerting personal will-power and inborn characteristics to achieve both biological and spiritual success. It is an idea that still echoes today. Study of Osborn’s thinking, however, has been obscured by the perception that racism influenced his theories. Brian Regal paints a different and more textured picture in this book - he shows that Osborn's views on race, like his political ideas, were motivated by his science, itself grounded in religious doctrine. His belief in the Central Asian origins of man, his role as an activist for eugenic reform and immigration controls, his support for Nordicism, his place in the 'New' versus 'Old' biology debate, his role in the Christian Fundamentalist controversy, the Scopes Monkey trial, and finally his construction of the 'Dawn Man' hypothesis - all stemmed from his desire to support his human evolution theory, and point the way to salvation. This biography charts Osborn's intellectual development, from its roots in the eclectic Christianity of his mother, through his student days with Arnold Guyot, James McCosh, and T.H. Huxley, to his mature work at the American Museum. It examines his trials and tribulations, friendships and conflicts, and the world in which he lived: all contributed to the construction of his theory. It is the dramatic story of a man holding onto ideas that for him represented the very meaning of life itself.