Show me the bone : reconstructing prehistoric monsters in nineteenth-century Britain and America /
Nineteenth-century paleontologists, such as Georges Cuvier and Richard Owen, were heralded as scientific virtuosos, sometimes even veritable wizards, capable of resurrecting the denizens of an ancient past from a mere glance at a fragmentary bone. Such extraordinary feats of predictive reasoning rel...
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Chicago ; London :
University of Chicago Press,
2016.
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