Great Fossil Enigma The Search for the Conodont Animal

Name: Great Fossil Enigma The Search for the Conodont Animal
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ISBN: 9780253006042

ISBN-10: 025300604X

ISBN-13: 9780253006042

Edition: 2012

Authors: Simon J. Knell

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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? In this book, Simon J. Knell takes the reader on a journey through 150 years of scientific thinking, imagining,…

Book details

List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 11/6/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 440
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.606
Language: English

Simon J. Knell, Professor of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester, is renowned for his innovative studies of fossils as scientific and cultural objects. Previously a popular geology columnist for Geology Today, Knell's publications include The Making of the Geological Society of London; The Culture of English Geology, 1815-1851; and The Age of the Earth: From 4004 BC to 2002 AD.