Book ID: CBB000201330

The Fate of the Mammoth: Fossils, Myth, and History (2002)

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Cohen, Claudine (Author)


University of Chicago Press


Publication Date: 2002
Edition Details: Foreword by Stephen Jay Gould
Physical Details: xxxiv + 297 pp., illus., bibl., index
Language: English

Description “Uses the mammoth and the theories that naturalists constructed around it to illuminate wider issues in the history of science, showing how changing views about a single object reveal the development of scientific methods, practices, and ideas.” (from publisher's web page)


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Review Laporte, Léo F. (2003) Review of "The Fate of the Mammoth: Fossils, Myth, and History". Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (p. 51). unapi

Review Hamm, E. P. (2005) Review of "The Fate of the Mammoth: Fossils, Myth, and History". Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology (p. 127). unapi

Review Van Riper, A. Bowdoin (2004) Review of "The Fate of the Mammoth: Fossils, Myth, and History". British Journal for the History of Science (p. 107). unapi

Review Francis, Kevin (2004) Review of "The Fate of the Mammoth: Fossils, Myth, and History". Journal of the History of Biology (p. 203). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Sepkoski, David Christopher
Currie, Adrian
Tamborini, Marco
Plana, Laura Valls
John J. McKay
Parsons, Keith M.
Concepts
Paleontology
Methodology of science; scientific method
Paleobiology
Fossils
Biology
Mammoths
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
Ancient
18th century
Places
United States
Kentucky (U.S.)
Barcelona (Spain)
Mediterranean region
Greece
Germany
Institutions
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris
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