House of lost worlds dinosaurs, dynasties, & the story of life on earth
This fascinating book tells the story of how one museum changed ideas about dinosaurs, dynasties, and even the story of life on earth. The Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, now celebrating its 150th anniversary, has remade the way we see the world. Delving into the museum's storied and colorfu...
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : hunting for truffles
- A West that was actually wild
- The patriarch
- The education of O.C. Marsh
- The wooing of George Peabody
- Rock render
- A rumor of war
- The Marsh expeditions
- Professor M on the warpath
- The year of enormous dinosaurs
- Fossils, buffalo, and the birth of American conservation
- A building of their own
- In the shadow of O.C. Marsh
- The prince of bone hunters
- Bone wars
- Trilobite magic and cycad obsessions
- Mapping ancient worlds
- A city raised like a chalice
- Teaching evolution
- The rise of modern ecology
- The beauty of the beasts
- The art of being invisible
- Into the unmapped world
- Zoology in the time of geneticists
- The man who saved dinosaurs
- Epilogue
- The Peabody's scientists.
