The great dinosaur controversy : a guide to the debates / Keith M. Parsons. [print]
Material type: TextSeries: Controversies in sciencePublication details: Santa Barbara, California : ABC-CLIO, (c)2004.; (Boston, Massachusetts : Credo Reference, (c)2012).Description: 1 online resource (18 entries) : 30 images, digital filesContent type:- text
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- 9781849723886
- QE861
- QE861.C912.G743 2012
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Includes bibliographical references.
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".
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. From the moment scientists first conceived of dinosaurs in the 1820s, the field of dinosaur paleontology has crackled with furious feuds and fever-pitch debates - arguments that continue today as scientists clash over everything from how these extraordinary creatures died to the possibility that their evolutionary offspring still roam (or fly over) the earth.
In The Great Dinosaur Controversy: A Guide to the Debates, the major scientific disputes that have contributed to the understanding of dinosaurs come to light. Each chapter presents a major controversy then ponders the lessons learned and their impact on the scientific field. Colorful characters such as "anti-evolutionist" Robert Owen, "Darwin's bulldog," T.H. Huxley, and "dinosaur heretic" Robert Bakker, enliven the debates, which range from the origin of dinosaurs and their posture to their evolution or retrogression and whether they were warm- or cold-blooded. Two of the most recent debates concern how dinosaurs became extinct and whether or not birds are their descendents.
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