The Great Dinosaur Controversy: A Guide to the Debates

The Great Dinosaur Controversy: A Guide to the Debates

ISBN-10:
1576079228
ISBN-13:
9781576079225
Pub. Date:
12/02/2003
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN-10:
1576079228
ISBN-13:
9781576079225
Pub. Date:
12/02/2003
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Academic
The Great Dinosaur Controversy: A Guide to the Debates

The Great Dinosaur Controversy: A Guide to the Debates

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Overview

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.

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781576079225
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 12/02/2003
Series: Controversies in Science
Pages: 304
Product dimensions: 7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.75(d)
Age Range: 12 - 18 Years

About the Author

Keith Parsons is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Houston Clear Lake, Houston, TX.

Table of Contents

Prefacevii
1Why All the Fuss?1
2"Fearfully Great Lizards"15
3Huxley Agonistes33
4Range War49
5Whose Dinosaur? Kaiser Bill's or Uncle Sam's?71
6Cold-Blooded, Warm-Blooded, or Neither?87
7The Raptor and the Hummingbird105
8"Sometimes You Have a Really Bad Day, and Something Falls out of the Sky"121
Appendix IDinosaurs and Their World145
Appendix IIEvolution155
Glossary169
Chronology173
References177
Documents185
Document Credits and Acknowledgments289
Index291
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