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The gilded dinosaur : the fossil war between E. D. Cope and O. C. Marsh and the rise of American science

by Mark Jaffe

This history chronicles the bitter nineteenth-century rivalry between American palaeontologists Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh, whose competitive quest for fossil discoveries in the American West shaped the development of modern science.

Accession 30379 ISBN 0517707608 Publisher Crown
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