Daniel Loxton

Abominable Science!

Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids

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Loxton and Prothero complete an entertaining, educational, and definitive text on demonstrably false phenomena, presenting both the arguments for and against their existence and systematically challenging the pseudoscience perpetuating their myths.

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Prothero, Donald R.

ISBN: 978-0-231-15320-1
EAN: 9780231153201
Produktnummer: 12296225
Verlag: Columbia University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 432 S.
Masse: H23.4 cm x B16.4 cm x D2.9 cm 1'046 g
Abbildungen: 88 illustrations
Gewicht: 1046
Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational

Über den Autor

Daniel Loxton is the editor of Junior Skeptic and a staff writer for Skeptic, for which he specializes in critical scholarship regarding claims of legendary animals. Known for his even-handed approach Loxton is one of the most widely respected skeptical critics of cryptozoology. He is the author and primary illustrator of Evolution: How We and All Living Things Came to Be and of the photorealistic paleofiction storybooks Pterosaur Trouble and Ankylosaur Attack. Donald R. Prothero is one of the leading scientists and authors working in paleontology and evolution. He is a former professor of geology at Occidental College and lecturer in geobiology at Caltech. He is presently a research associate in the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum and is the author of more than 30 books and 250 scientific papers published in leading scholarly journals. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University and is a fellow of the Geological Society of America, the Paleontological Society, and the Linnean Society of London.