[Commlist] New book: Palaeontology in Public: Popular science, lost creatures and deep time

UCL Press is delighted to announce the publication of a new open access 
book that may be of interest to list subscribers/: Palaeontology in 
Public: Popular science, lost creatures and deep time, /edited//by Chris 
Manias.
Download it free: https://bit.ly/3PNfhUg

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*/Palaeontology in Public:
Popular science lost creatures and deep time/
*Edited//by Chris Manias
Free download: https://bit.ly/3PNfhUg

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Since the establishment of concepts of deep time in the late eighteenth 
and early nineteenth centuries, palaeontology has been one of the most 
high-profile sciences. Dinosaurs, mammoths, human ancestors and other 
lost creatures from Earth’s history are some of the most prominent icons 
of science, and are essential for our understanding of nature and time. 
Palaeontology and its practitioners have had a huge impact on public 
understandings of science, despite their often precarious and unsteady 
position within scientific institutions and networks.

/Palaeontology in Public/ considers the connections between 
palaeontology and public culture across the past two centuries. In so 
doing, it explores how these public dimensions have been crucial to the 
development of palaeontology, and indeed how they conditioned wider 
views of science, nature, the environment, time and the world. The book 
provides a history of vertebrate palaeontology through a series of 
compelling case studies. Dinosaurs feature, of course, including 
/Spinosaurus/, Winsor McCay’s ‘Gertie the Dinosaur’ and the creatures of 
/Jurassic Park/ and /The Lost World/. But there are also the small 
mammals of the Mesozoic, South American Glyptodons, and human ancestors 
like Neanderthals and Australopithecines. This book shows how 
palaeontology is defined by its relationship with public audiences and 
how this connection is central to our vision of the past and future of 
the Earth and its inhabitants.

Free download: https://bit.ly/3PNfhUg

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