The Great Fossil Enigma: The Search for the Conodont Animal
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品牌: Simon J. Knell
基本信息出版社:Indiana University Press (2012年10月25日)丛书名:Life of the Past精装:416页正文语种:英语ISBN:025300604X条形码:9780253006042ASIN:025300604X您想告诉我们您发现了更低的价格?
商品描述内容简介Stephen Jay Gould borrowed from Winston Churchill when he described the conodont animal as a "riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." This animal confounded science for more than a century. Some thought it a slug, others a fish, a worm, a plant, even a primitive ancestor of ourselves. The list of possibilities grew and yet an answer to the riddle never seemed any nearer. Would the animal that left behind these miniscule fossils known as conodonts ever be identified? Three times the animal was "found," but each was quite a different animal. Were any of them really the one? Simon J. Knell takes the reader on a journey through 150 years of scientific thinking, imagining, and arguing. Slowly the animal begins to reveal traces of itself: its lifestyle, its remarkable evolution, its witnessing of great catastrophes, its movements over the surface of the planet, and finally its anatomy. Today the conodont animal remains perhaps the most disputed creature in the zoological world.目录Preface; List of Illustrations; Prelude: The Impossible Animal 1. The Road to El Dorado; 2. A Beacon in the Blackness; 3. The Animal with Three Heads; 4. Another Fine Mess; 5. Outlaws; 6. Spring; 7. Diary of a Fossil Fruit-Fly; 8. Fears of Civil War; 9. The Promised Land; 10. The Witness; 11. The Beast of Bear Gulch; 12. The Invention of Life; 13. El Dorado; 14. Over the Mountains of the Moon Notes; Index
