The legacy of the Mastodon the golden age of fossils in America /
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
c2008.
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書本目錄:
- Pt. one: The Jeffersonians
- Fossil hunters on the frontier
- Big Bone Lick
- Franklin, Jefferson, and the incognitum
- Jefferson's "great-claw" and a world about to change
- The first American dinosaurs: an eighteenth-century mystery story
- Fossils and show business: Mr. Peale's Mastodon
- Pt. two: Fossils and geology
- Fossils and extinction: dangerous ideas
- Mary Anning's world
- An American natural science
- An American geology
- Bad lands: no time for ideas
- Dr. Leidy's dinosaur
- Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden
- Pt. three: Giant Saurians and horned mammals
- Kansas and a new regime
- Entry of the gladiators
- Riding the rails
- The first Yale college expedition
- The competition begins
- Buffalo land: who was Professor Paleozoic?
- 1872: the year of conflict
- The case of the great horned mammals
- Going separate ways
- Two into four won't go
- To the Black Hills
- To the Judith River
- Pt. four: Toward the twentieth century
- The rise of dinosaurs
- The good, the bad, and the ugly
- Going public
- 1890: the end of the beginning
- Appendixes
- The geological column
- Leidy on evolution
- Cope on evolution.