Article ID: CBB000850046

Eozoön: Debunking the Dawn Animal (2007)

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Discovered in the nineteenth century by the Canadian Geological Survey, the Eozoön canadense fossil, or ‘dawn animal of Canada’, created a sensation in the geological community. Only a few initially challenged its status as a fossil organism, including two professors in the remote Irish town of Galway. These men claimed that Eozoön was nothing more than a mineral formation and did not represent the discovery of the primordial organism. Supporters of Eozoön closed ranks and a heated debate soon broke out in a range of periodicals. The story of Eozoön lays bare the construction of scientific credibility, a process that was threatened in the second half of the nineteenth century by the proliferation of popular science.

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Description On the debate over the nature of the fossil discovered in Canada and its relation to science in the popular periodical press.


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Authors & Contributors
Rosenberg, Gary D.
McMillan, R. Bruce
Edward P.F. Rose
Mathias Harzhauser
Charles G.M. Paxton
Tom Sharpe
Concepts
Paleontology
Geology
Fossils
Earth sciences
Science and society
Popularization
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
Pleistocene
Early modern
Renaissance
Places
United States
Great Britain
Australia
Malta
England
Florence (Italy)
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