Author: MICHAEL J. NOVACEK
Title: Time Traveler. In Search of Dinosaurs and Ancient Mammals from Montana to Mongolia
Description: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 368. Hunting for fossils with a preeminent guide and teachernMichael Novacek, a world-renowned paleontologist who has discovered important fossils on virtually every continent, is an authority on patterns of evolution and on the relationships among extinct and extant organisms. Time Traveler is his captivating account of how his boyhood enthusiasm for dinosaurs became a lifelong commitment to vanguard science. He takes us with him as he discovers fossils in his own backyard in Los Angeles, then goes looking for them in the high Andes, the black volcanic mountains of Yemen, and the incredibly rich fossil badlands of the Gobi desert.nWherever Novacek goes he searches for still undiscovered evidence of what life was like on Earth millions of years ago. Along the way he has almost drowned, been stung by deadly scorpions, been held at gunpoint by a renegade army, and nearly choked in raging dust storms. Fieldwork is very demanding in a host of unusual, dramatic, sometimes hilarious ways, and Novacek writes of its alluring perils with affection and discernment. But Time Traveler also makes sense of many complex themes - about dinosaur evolution, continental drift, mass extinctions, new methods for understanding ancient environments, and the evolutionary secrets of DNA in fossil organisms. It is also an enthralling adventure story. ISBN: 9780374278809. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780374278809
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Title: Time Traveler. In Search of Dinosaurs and Ancient Mammals from Montana to Mongolia
Description: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 368. Hunting for fossils with a preeminent guide and teachernMichael Novacek, a world-renowned paleontologist who has discovered important fossils on virtually every continent, is an authority on patterns of evolution and on the relationships among extinct and extant organisms. Time Traveler is his captivating account of how his boyhood enthusiasm for dinosaurs became a lifelong commitment to vanguard science. He takes us with him as he discovers fossils in his own backyard in Los Angeles, then goes looking for them in the high Andes, the black volcanic mountains of Yemen, and the incredibly rich fossil badlands of the Gobi desert.nWherever Novacek goes he searches for still undiscovered evidence of what life was like on Earth millions of years ago. Along the way he has almost drowned, been stung by deadly scorpions, been held at gunpoint by a renegade army, and nearly choked in raging dust storms. Fieldwork is very demanding in a host of unusual, dramatic, sometimes hilarious ways, and Novacek writes of its alluring perils with affection and discernment. But Time Traveler also makes sense of many complex themes - about dinosaur evolution, continental drift, mass extinctions, new methods for understanding ancient environments, and the evolutionary secrets of DNA in fossil organisms. It is also an enthralling adventure story. ISBN: 9780374278809. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780374278809
Price: EUR 25.00 = appr. US$ 27.17 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 2375865
- Book number: 2375865
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