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The fate of the mammoth : fossils, myth, and history / Claudine Cohen ; translated by William Rodarmor ; with a foreword by Stephen Jay Gould.
Record details
- ISBN: 0226112926 (cloth : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9780226112923 (cloth : alk. paper)
- Physical Description: xxxiv, 297 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002.
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-290) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- 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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- Mammoths.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lummi Library | QE 882 .P8 C6413 | 267927 | Stacks | Reshelving | - |
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