The Dragon Seekers: How an Extraordinary Cicle of Fossilists Discovered the Dinosaurs and Paved the Way for Darwin McGowan Christopher
The Dragon Seekers: How an Extraordinary Cicle of Fossilists Discovered the Dinosaurs and Paved the Way for Darwin McGowan Christopher Set in nineteenth-century England, The Dragon Seekers chronicles…
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The Dragon Seekers: How an Extraordinary Cicle of Fossilists Discovered the Dinosaurs and Paved the Way for Darwin McGowan Christopher
Set in nineteenth-century England, The Dragon Seekers chronicles the amazing discoveries of the first fossilists, whose findings in geology and paleontology led to the discovery of the age of dinosaurs. Christopher McGowan takes us back to a time when the new sciences of geology and paleontology were as young and vibrant as genetic engineering is today. The intriguing cast of characters includes Mary Anning, a working-class woman who became one of the most successful fossil collectors of all time; Thomas Hawkins, another amateur collector who "improved upon" fossils in order to increase their market value; the eccentric William Buckland, discoverer of the world's first dinosaur (Megalosaurus), and Richard Owen, an expert anatomist, who synthesized the discoveries of the age and ultimately coined the word "dinosaur" in 1842.
Through heated public debates on everything from the age