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Living fossil: the story of the coelacanth

By Thomson , Keith Stewart

Book information

Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN
9780393245356, 0393245357
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2171814 bytes)
Pages
(252 pages) : illustrations\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Coelacanth;Cœlacanthe;Latimeria chalumnae

Description

"An engrossing tale of obsession, adventure and scientific reasoning." —Betty Ann Kevles, Los Angeles TimesIn the winter of 1938, a fishing boat by chance dragged from the Indian Ocean a fish thought extinct for 70 million years. It was a coelacanth, which thrived concurrently with dinosaurs and pterodactyls—an animal of major importance to those who study the history of vertebrate life.Living Fossil describes the life and habitat of the coelcanth and what scientists have learned about it during fifty years of research. It is an exciting and very human story, filled with ambitious and brilliant people, that reveals much about the practice of modern science.

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