Palaeontology in Public: Popular Science, Lost Creatures and Deep Time

Chris Manias

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Fourteen essays on how paleontology reached the public, from Victorian museum halls to Gertie the Dinosaur and Jurassic Park. It shows how the science of deep time turned into popular culture, and what that did back to the science.

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