History of Paleontology
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This paper explores seventeenth-century antiquarianism through the writings of Richard Rowlands Verstegan, an English Catholic who lived in Antwerp for most of his long life for fear of religious persecution in his home country. The... more
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Lukas Rieppel 2019: Assembling the Dinosaur. Fossil Hunters, Tycoons, and the Making of a Spectacle. Ilja Nieuwland 2019: American Dinosaur Abroad. A Cultural History of Carnegie’s Plaster Diplodocus. Ina Heumann, Holger Stoecker, Marco... more
Among historians of geology, the end of the seventeenth century is well known for the appearance of many detailed theories of the Earth which attempted to achieve great syntheses of natural processes and phenomena in order to explain the... more
The Grand Canyon! Anywhere in the world the name rouses recognition. Monumentally impossible to describe (or so have said thousands of writers who then effused their own descriptions), it has been a lure to geologists since 1858. From the... more
E a tradução dos textos: Mémoire sur les espèces d’Élephans tant vivantes que fossiles (Memória sobre espécies de elefantes tanto vivas quanto fósseis” de 1795 e Lettre de G. Cuvier a Jean-Claude Mertrud (Carta de Georges Cuvier a... more
Based on 18th century natural history a short summary on the history of zoology at the Vienna University and its institutions is given. In doing so close interrelations between zoology and medicine become evident. Rudolf Kner, first... more
This essay justifies the imperative of adopting civil, lenient attitudes toward members of other communities, whether religious or professional. It begins to integrate certain historically male- or female-dominated knowledge traditions.... more
In the article, an work of Manokhin George Vasilovich to the Primorsky district was examined: the organization and excavation (1941-1942 b.) of the first skeleton of the pythonic elephant (Archidiskodon meridionalis) of the early... more
Durante il periodo vittoriano, era fortemente dominante una visione creazionista del mondo, e l’idea che potessero essere esistite creature ignote che avrebbero potuto minacciare l’uomo, significava mettere in discussione la Bibbia. Oggi... more
Charla al Ateneu Barcelonés L'apropiació nacionalista de fòssils humans té una llarga tradició. El projecte científic d'Atapuerca ha passat per aquest procés en convertir-se, segons la cultura popular, en el nou origen de la història... more
In this paper, I investigate the variety and richness of the taxonomical practices between the end of the nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries. During these decades, zoologists and paleontologists came up with different... more
Resumen El trabajo de Alfredo Dugès relacionado con el estudio del registro fósil representa un importante ejemplo del estado de la Paleontología como ciencia durante la segunda mitad del siglo xix. La información que se encuentra en los... more
Late in his career, Stephen Jay Gould claimed that the theory of punctuated equilibria had been the coordinating centerpiece of his work in evolutionary biology. In particular, Gould claimed that the theory coordinated two major themes in... more
Few of Stephen Jay Gould's accomplishments in evolutionary biology have received more attention than his hierarchical theory of evolution, which postulates a causal discontinuity between micro-and macroevolutionary events. But Gould's... more
Although the findings of the discipline of palaeontology had been rich enough since the 1830s to render a chronological history of nature conceivable, a recognizable genre fulfilling this purpose did not fully emerge until the 1860s. The... more
George Gaylord Simpson (1902-1984) was a leader in twentieth century vertebrate palaeontology, and he contributed to making the American Museum of Natural History a powerhouse in the field. In 1959, Simpson left his job at the museum in a... more