The Innocent Assassins: Biological Essays on Life in the Present and Distant Past [Hardcover]

Bjorn Kurten (Author), Bjarn Kurta(c)N (Author), Bj?rn Kurt?n (Author)

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Hardcover: 206 pages
Publisher: Columbia University Press (June 1991)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0231072767
ISBN-13: 978-0231072762
Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 14.2 x 2 cm
Shipping Weight: 454 g

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This collection by a noted paleontologist covers a range of topics from a stew dinner made from a 36,000-year-old frozen bison to a fanciful look at how a man would experience the world if he were reduced to the size of an ant. Kurten is at his best writing about Ice Age animals (his area of specialty), but all his essays overflow with ideas, many drawn from his own extensive reading (the "innocent assassins" are sabertooth tigers from a poem by Loren Eiseley). General readers can enjoy these essays, which are also sophisticated enough to appeal to those with a background in evolution or paleontology. Some of the subjects have been presented in longer books for the same audience, such as R. Dale Guthrie's Frozen Fauna of the Mammoth Steppe: The Story of Blue Babe (Univ. of Chicago Pr., 1990) or Knut Schmidt-Neilson's Scaling: Why Is Animal Size So Important? (Cambridge Univ. Pr., 1984). For larger science collections.
- Amy Brunvand, Fort Lewis Coll. Lib., Durango, Col.
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