Author : Department of the Interior, U. S. Geological Surve
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 36,65 MB
Release : 1980-07
Category :
ISBN : 9780405127311
Author : Henry Fairfield Osborn
Publisher :
Page : 953 pages
File Size : 33,60 MB
Release : 1929
Category : Brontotheriidae
ISBN :
Author : Henry Fairfield Osborn
Publisher :
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 16,69 MB
Release : 1929
Category : Brontotheriidae
ISBN :
Author : Henry Fairfield Osborn
Publisher :
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 32,39 MB
Release : 1929
Category : Brontotheriidae
ISBN :
Author : Office of the Home Secretary
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 35,21 MB
Release : 1975-02-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0309022401
Biographic Memoirs Volume 46 contains the biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences and bibliographies of their published works. Each biographical essay was written by a member of the Academy familiar with the professional career of the deceased. For historical and bibliographical purposes, these volumes are worth returning to time and again.
Author : Christine M. Janis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 43,93 MB
Release : 1998-05-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780521355193
This book is designed as a source and reference for people interested in the history and fossil record of North American tertiary mammals. Each chapter covers a different family or order, and includes information on anatomical features, systematics, the distribution of the genera and species at different fossil localities, and a discussion of their paleobiology. Many of these groups have never been covered in this fashion before.
Author : Jane P. Davidson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 39,29 MB
Release : 2017-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0253033586
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, North American and European governments generously funded the discoveries of such famous paleontologists and geologists as Henry de la Beche, William Buckland, Richard Owen, Thomas Hawkins, Edward Drinker Cope, O. C. Marsh, and Charles W. Gilmore. In Patrons of Paleontology, Jane Davidson explores the motivation behind this rush to fund exploration, arguing that eagerness to discover strategic resources like coal deposits was further fueled by patrons who had a genuine passion for paleontology and the fascinating creatures that were being unearthed. These early decades of government support shaped the way the discipline grew, creating practices and enabling discoveries that continue to affect paleontology today.
Author : Dennis O. Terry
Publisher : Geological Society of America
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 33,31 MB
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780813723259
Author : Susan R. Schrepfer
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 27,17 MB
Release : 2003-04-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0299088537
"This is not a simple or ordinary history of a conservation crusade. Schrepfer very ably traces the changes in scientific wisdom from nineteenth-century romanticism and teleological evolutionism to more current ecological dynamism—and the influence of those intellectual developments on political history. . . . The subject is important—much broader than the title suggests—and so is the book."—American Historical Review
Author : Peter J. Bowler
Publisher :
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 14,93 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780801829321
In this pioneering study of the first major challenges to Darwinism, Peter J. Bowler examines the competing theories of evolution, identifies their intellectual origins, and describes the process by which the modern concept of evolution emerged. Describing the variety of influences that drove scientists to challenge Darwin's conclusions, Bowler reevaluates the influence of social forces on the scientific community and explores the broad philosophical, ideological, and social implications of scientific theories.
