Show me the bone : reconstructing prehistoric monsters in nineteenth-century Britain and America / Gowan Dawson.
Dawson, Gowan, author.; ProQuest (Firm)
2016
QE705.A1 D39 2016
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Show me the bone : reconstructing prehistoric monsters in nineteenth-century Britain and America / Gowan Dawson.
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Dawson, Gowan, author.
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9780226332871 (electronic bk.)
022633287X (electronic bk.)
9780226332734
022633273X
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2016.
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English
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1 online resource (476 pages) : illustrations.
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40025969051
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QE705.A1 D39 2016
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560
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction: Cuvier's law of correlation
Part I. Arrival, 1795-1839 : translations and appropriations. Correlation crosses the Channel ; Fragments of design
Part II. Triumph, 1839-54 : bones, serials, and models. Discovering the dinornis ; Paleontology in parts ; Correlation at the Crystal Palace
Part III. Overthrow, 1854-62 : scientific naturalists, popularizers, and cannibals. Correlation under siege ; The problems of popularization ; Unfortunate allies
Part IV. Afterlife, 1862-1917 : missing links and hidden clues. Evolutionary modifications ; Prophecies of the past
Epilogue: Ghosts of correlation.

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