Architects of Eternity
The New Science of Fossils
Richard Corfield(Author)
Headline Book Publishing
Published on 31. December 1999
Book
Hardback
352 pages
978-0-7472-7179-6 (ISBN)
Description
Man has always been fascinated by fossils, but it is only relatively recently that we have begun to appreciate fully what they actually tell us about the world. Scattered across eternity, the fossil record is our only clue to the vast tracts of "deep time" which precede the advent of humankind. Predictably, the way fossils have been interpreted in the past often tell us more about the personalities involved than it does about prehistory. But is through these personalities, from Othniel Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope battling it out in the wilderness of 19th-century Wyoming right up to the bitter feuds of scientists of the 21st-century, that in the end we have come to learn extraordinary things about the real origins of life on earth.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Headline Publishing Group
Illustrations
16 illustrations, (8 colour )
Dimensions
Height: 161 mm
Width: 238 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7472-7179-6 (9780747271796)
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Person
Richard Corfield is a Research Associate in the Department of Earth Sciences at Oxford University. He has been at the forefront of palaeontological innovation for the past decade. This is his first book.