Abominable science! origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and other famous cryptids
Loxton and Prothero complete an entertaining, educational, and definitive text on demonstrably false phenomena, presenting both the arguments for and against their existence and systematically challenging the pseudoscience perpetuating their myths.
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| 100 | 1 | |a Loxton, Daniel, |d 1975- |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Abominable science! : |b origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and other famous cryptids / |c Daniel Loxton and Donald R. Prothero. |
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b Columbia University Press, |c [2013] | |
| 300 | |a xvi, 411 pages : |b illustrations (some color) ; |c 24 cm | ||
| 336 | |a text |2 rdacontent | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages [337]-393) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Cryptozoology : real science or pseudoscience? -- Bigfoot : the Sasquatch -- The Yeti : the Abominable Snowman -- Nessie : the Loch Ness monster -- The evolution of the sea serpent : from Hippocamp to Cadborosaurus -- Mokele Mbembe : the Congo dinosaur -- Why do people believe in monsters? : the complexity of cryptozoology. | |
| 520 | |a Loxton and Prothero complete an entertaining, educational, and definitive text on demonstrably false phenomena, presenting both the arguments for and against their existence and systematically challenging the pseudoscience perpetuating their myths. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Cryptozoology. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Animals, Mythical. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Pseudoscience. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Prothero, Donald R., |e author. | |
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