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Language: English
Published by Yale University Press, 1993
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- Title
- The Common but Less Frequent Loon and Other Essays
- Author
- Dr. Keith Stewart Thomson
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Publication year
- 1993
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0300056303
- ISBN 13
- 9780300056303
- Illustrator
- Thomson, Linda Price
- Item weight
- 1 pound
The Piltdown fraud, the mystery of how the shark swims with an asymmetric tail, the debate over dinosaur extinction - these are some of the subjects covered in this book which celebrates the aesthetic, literary and intellectual aspects of science and conveys what it is to be a scientist.
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About the Author
Keith Stewart Thomson has been adjunct professor of geology at the University of Pennsylvania since 1989 and was previously professor of biology and dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Yale University and director of its Peabody Museum of Natural History.
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