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• 1.万物简史 第109期:势不两立的科学(10)
• It would be hard to think of a more overlooked person in the history of paleontology than Mary Anning, but in fact there was one who came painfully cl...
• 2.万物简史 第108期:势不两立的科学(9)
• By this time, however, paleontological momentum had moved to England. In 1812, at Lyme Regis on the Dorset coast, an extraordinary child named Mary An...
• 3.万物简史 第107期:势不两立的科学(8)
• So by the early years of the nineteenth century, fossils had taken on a certain inescapable importance, which makes Wistar's failure to see the signif...
• 4.万物简史 第106期:势不两立的科学(7)
• Unfortunately, having had his insight, Smith was curiously uninterested in understanding why rocks were laid down in the way they were. I have left of...
• 5.万物简史 第105期:势不两立的科学(6)
• In the same yearin fact, the same monththat the aristocratic and celebrated Cuvier was propounding his extinction theories in Paris, on the other side...
• 6.万物简史 第104期:势不两立的科学(5)
• Inspired by the controversy, in 1796 Cuvier wrote a landmark paper, Note on the Species of Living and Fossil Elephants, in which he put forward for th...
• 7.万物简史 第103期:势不两立的科学(4)
• In their keenness to demonstrate the incognitum's bulk and ferocity, the American naturalists appear to have become slightly carried away. They overes...
• 8.万物简史 第102期:势不两立的科学(3)
• Not surprisingly, such aspersions were indignantly met in America. Thomas Jefferson incorporated a furious (and, unless the context is understood, qui...
• 9.万物简史 第101期:势不两立的科学(2)
• That the bone didn't attract greater interest is more than a little puzzling, for its appearance came at a time when America was in a froth of excitem...
• 10.万物简史 第100期:势不两立的科学(1)
• 6 SCIENCE RED IN TOOTH AND CLAW 第六章 势不两立的科学 IN 1787, SOMEONE in New Jerseyexactly who now seems to be forgottenfound an enormous thighbone s...