Too big to walk
(2018)

Nonfiction

eAudiobook

Provider: hoopla

Details

PUBLISHED
[United States] : HarperCollins Publishers UK, 2018
Made available through hoopla
EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (1 audio file (19hr., 03 min.)) : digital

ISBN/ISSN
9780008218928 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) MWT12088734, 0008218927 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 12088734
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Narrator not specified

In this meticulous and absorbing account, Ford reviews the latest scientific evidence to show that the popular accounts of dinosaurs' lives contain ideas that are no more than convenient inventions: how dinosaurs mated, how they hunted and communicated, how they nursed their young, even how they moved. He uncovers many surprising details which challenge our most deeply-held beliefs - such as the revelation that an asteroid impact did not end the dinosaurs' existence. Professor Ford's illuminating examination changes everything. As he unravels the history of the world, we discover that evolution was not Charles Darwin's idea; there were many philosophers who published the theory before him. The concept of continental drift and plate tectonics did not begin with Alfred Wegener a century ago, but dates back to learned pioneers hundreds of years before his time. Ever since scientists first began to study dinosaurs, they have travelled with each other down the wrong path, and Ford now shows how this entire branch of science has to be rewritten. A new dinosaur species is announced every ten days, and more and more information is currently being discovered about how they may have lived: locomotion, hunting, nesting behavior, distribution, extinction. Ford brings together these amazing discoveries in this controversial new book which undoubtedly will ruffle a few feathers, or scales if you are an old-school dinosaur lover

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