From Monster to Ancestor: The Emergence and Animation of the Deep Past

This article looks at the treatment of extinct species by scientific popularisers in the nineteenth century, and seeks to show how their status changed over time, and why. Starting out as exotic otherworldly monsters, they retained this status amongst those authors seeking to present the findings of...

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Main Author: Richard Somerset
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2017-03-01
Series:Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/cve/3166
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