| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Correlation crosses the Channel -- Fragments of design -- Discovering the dinornis -- Paleontology in parts -- Correlation at the Crystal Palace -- Correlation under siege -- The problems of popularization -- Unfortunate allies -- Evolutionary modifications -- Prophecies of the past. |
| Summary |
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 relied on the law of correlation, which proposed that each element of an animal corresponds mutually with each of the others, so that a carnivorous tooth must be accompanied by a certain kind of jawbone, neck, stomach, limbs and feet. 'Show Me the Bone' tells the story of the rise and fall of this famous claim. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Paleontology -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Paleontology. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Paleontology -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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United States. |
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Paleontologists -- Biography.
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Paleontologists -- Biography. |
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Paleontologists. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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History.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Dawson, Gowan. Show me the bone. Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2016 9780226332734 022633273X (DLC) 2015025656 (OCoLC)913164287 |
| ISBN |
9780226332871 (electronic book) |
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022633287X (electronic book) |
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9780226332734 |
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022633273X |
| Standard No. |
40025969051 |
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