The fate of the mammoth : fossils, myth, and history / Claudine Cohen ; translated by William Rodarmor ; with a foreword by Stephen Jay Gould.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: French Publication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002.Description: xxxiv, 297 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN: - 0226112926 (cloth : alk. paper)
- Destin du mammouth. English
- QE882.P8 C6413 2002
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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.
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