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With the correspondence between Teilhard de Chardin and his cousin Marguerite, Teilhard's ideas, personality, and reaction to the first world war are revealed. His four years of service as a stretcher-bearer on the front lines chronicle the emergence of the humanitarian vision which began his philosophical life.

A paleontologist presents an account of how his childhood ferver for dinosaurs became a lifelong commitment to cutting-edge science, documenting his many adventures, from Los Angeles to the rich fossil badlands of the Gobi desert.

A brief biography of the English girl whose discovery of an Ichthyosaurus skeleton in 1811 when she was twelve led to a life-long interest in fossils and other important discoveries.

"Edward Drinker Cope was a Philadelphia Quaker from a wealthy family, an old-fashioned naturalist in the Jeffersonian tradition. Othniel Charles Marsh, a farm boy who had risen to a Yale professorship, was the model of a modern scientific entrepreneur. Opposites in personality and background as well as in political orientation and scientific beliefs, they fought over fossils as bitterly as other men fought over gold. With Indian wars swirling around...

Against the backdrop of the Industrial Revolution, an extraordinary circle of fossilists struggled to make sense of a mysterious, prehistoric world - a world they had to piece together from the fossilized and often fragmentary remains of animals never before seen. In this transporting, seamlessly written book, Christopher McGowan takes us back to a time when geology and paleontology were as young and vibrant as genetic engineering is today. The nineteenth-century...