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How to Deep Freeze a Mammoth (Hardcover)

by B Kurten (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 121 pages
  • Publisher: Columbia University Press (28 Jul 1986)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0231059787
  • ISBN-13: 978-0231059787
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.8 x 1.6 cm
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I find it a pleasure to read Bjorn Kurten, a world authority on Ice Age mammals, ranging widely through the earth sciences in the series of essays. It seems likely that we will have to clone DNA to get slices of edible deep-frozen mammoth tissue, but Kurten has dined on an extinct bison. Man is greater than a star, but a bacterium is also greater than a star-after all, bacteria evolved into man. The immense Mediterranean Flood is a million years too old for the Flood legend, leaving the ten-thousand-year-old melting of ice sheets as the source of aboriginal fireside tales of an endless invasion by the sea. In a cliff of basalt in Washington state is a mold of a twenty-million-year-old rhino, into which one can walk to become a modern-day Jonah (if you would settle for a rhino, and enter from the other end). It is Stephen Jay Gould vs. Teilhard in the Piltdown fraud. And you can forget the simple-minded ancient theory that Cro-Magnon cave art was magic for good hunting-it was for instruction and enjoyment."

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How does bison meat taste after being frozen for 30,000 years? Were Ice Age cave painters trying to create "art" or just record history? How did ancient oil spills occur, before oil companies existed? Those are just some of the questions renowned paleontologist Bjorn Kurten answers in these lighthearted essays on fossils, ancient life, and related topics.

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