The fate of the mammoth : fossils, myth, and history /
Cohen, Claudine.
The fate of the mammoth : fossils, myth, and history / Claudine Cohen ; translated by William Rodarmor ; with a foreword by Stephen Jay Gould. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002. - xxxiv, 297 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-290) and index.
Mammoth appears -- Saint Augustine and the giants -- Leibniz's unicorn -- Identifying an elephant: Russian mamont, elephant, flood -- "Vast mahmout" and the birth of the American nation -- Mammoth and the "revolutions of the surface of the globe" -- Mammoth in Victorian times -- Mammoths and men -- Mammoth in the trees -- Africa to Alaska: the travels of the mammoth -- Cloning the mammoth: elephants, computers, and molecules -- Life and death of mammoths: scenarios for an extinction.
0226112926 (cloth : alk. paper)
2001048011
GBA2-Z0458
Mammoths.
QE882.P8 / C6413 2002
The fate of the mammoth : fossils, myth, and history / Claudine Cohen ; translated by William Rodarmor ; with a foreword by Stephen Jay Gould. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002. - xxxiv, 297 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-290) and index.
Mammoth appears -- Saint Augustine and the giants -- Leibniz's unicorn -- Identifying an elephant: Russian mamont, elephant, flood -- "Vast mahmout" and the birth of the American nation -- Mammoth and the "revolutions of the surface of the globe" -- Mammoth in Victorian times -- Mammoths and men -- Mammoth in the trees -- Africa to Alaska: the travels of the mammoth -- Cloning the mammoth: elephants, computers, and molecules -- Life and death of mammoths: scenarios for an extinction.
0226112926 (cloth : alk. paper)
2001048011
GBA2-Z0458
Mammoths.
QE882.P8 / C6413 2002